Lots and lots of implications for climate models and GHG budgets. From New Phytologist Kristofer R. Covey J. Patrick Megonigal First published: 06 December 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15624 Summary Forest ecosystem methane…
Category: Methane
Melting ice sheets release tons of methane into the atmosphere, study finds
From EurekAlert! Public Release: 3-Jan-2019 Melting ice sheets release tons of methane into the atmosphere, study finds University of Bristol Melting ice sheet release tons of methane into the atmosphere,…
Seaweed could make cows burp less methane and cut their carbon hoofprint
From MIT Technology Review Sustainable Energy Seaweed could make cows burp less methane and cut their carbon hoofprint A diet supplemented with red algae could lessen the huge amounts…
Termite colony the size of Great Britain ‘has been being built since the dawn of the Pyramids’
The methane! It burns. Seems as if this should be accounted for in GCMs~ctm From Yahoo News UK Rob Waugh Contributor November 20, 2018 It’s a construction project unlike…
Claim: Woolly Mammoth Resurrection will Defuse the Climate Methane Bomb
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Vast hairy beasts tramping the Arctic Tundra will help save the world. Scientists Hope Mammoth ‘De-extinction’ Will Save Earth Kashmira Gander 1 day ago ……
The world's first climate propaganda satellite to be launched?
This is quite something, and yet puzzling. The Environmental Defense Fund, an NGO with a history of environmental propaganda and a huge budget, plans to launch their own methane-detecting satellite. They…
New DOE study on methane raises more questions than it answers
From: DOE/LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY First direct observations of methane’s increasing greenhouse effect at the Earth’s surface Scientists have directly measured the increasing greenhouse effect of methane at the Earth’s surface…
Why did gas hydrates melt at the end of the last ice age?
GEOMAR researchers find links between sedimentation and methane seeps on the seafloor off the coast of Norway Large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane are locked up as solid gas…
Study: Arctic ocean ‘methane bomb’ really isn’t anything to worry about
From the UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER comes this study that backs up a study that we reported on just a few days ago about methane clathrates on the ocean floor. The so-called…
More “settled science” – Unexpected environmental source of methane discovered
Some nitrogen-fixing microorganisms contain an enzyme for the simultaneous production of ammonia and methane UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HEALTH SCIENCES/UW MEDICINE An unexpected source of methane in the environment has been…
So much for the ‘methane bomb’ – study finds methane hydrate dissociation…’not caused by climate change’
From the HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL (GEOMAR) and the soon to be defunct “Arctic Methane Emergency Group” comes this good news. Methane hydrate dissociation off Spitsbergen not caused…
NASA-led Study Solves a Global Methane Puzzle
From NASA GODDARD: A new NASA-led study has solved a puzzle involving the recent rise in atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, with a new calculation of emissions from global…
Researchers nail down the long-sought source of ocean methane
From the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the “settled science” department. An abundant enzyme in marine microbes may be responsible for production of the greenhouse gas CAMBRIDGE, MA — Industrial and…
Global climate models may be misjudging methane releases into the atmosphere
From the Ohio State University and the “settled science” department. Results suggest more methane may be released into atmosphere than thought COLUMBUS, Ohio–A study of a Lake Erie wetland suggests…
Turning wasted Methane into liquid fuel
From the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY A new way to harness wasted methane Approach developed at MIT could help curb needless ‘flaring’ of potent greenhouse gas. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Methane gas,…
NOAA’s Climate.gov Says Natural Wetlands, Tropical Agriculture Responsible For Methane Increases, Not Oil and Gas
From Western Wire by Michael Sandoval July 18, 2017 “Agricultural and wetland emissions” from the planet’s tropical areas, not oil and gas activities in the United States, are more than…
Arctic Methane Seeps Slow Global Warming, Reverse Ocean Acidification and Cure Hypoxia
Guest post by David Middleton From the “Truth is Stranger than Fiction” files: Are methane seeps in the Arctic slowing global warming? By Randall HymanMay. 8, 2017 , 3:00 PM…
‘Detergent’ molecules may be driving fluctuations in atmospheric methane concentrations
New study suggests hydroxyl radicals may be behind unexplained recent increase in methane levels from the CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY During the early 2000s, environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed…
Huge Ancient Methane Seeps Discovered in the Canadian High Arctic
From the GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Boulder, Colo., USA: Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant methane release from the seafloor, indicating potential for similar destabilization of gas hydrates under modern…
Good news: Methane hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause massive greenhouse gas release
From the US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The breakdown of methane hydrates due to warming climate is unlikely to lead to massive amounts of methane being released to the atmosphere, according to a…
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