New Report: Melting Arctic Ocean Raises Threat of ‘Methane Time Bomb’
Yale Environment 360 http://e360.yale.edu/content/fe ature.msp?id=2081 Scientists have long believed that thawing permafrost in Arctic soils could release huge amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Now they are watching with increasing concern as methane begins to bubble up from the bottom of the fast-melting Arctic Ocean. By Susan Q. Stranahan For the past 15 [...]
Gwynne Dyer: A climate apocalypse could be approaching
Straight.com http://www.straight.com/article-164106/gwynne-dyer-climate-apocalypse-could-be-approaching By Gwynne Dyer Published September 25, 2008 Scientists have their own way of putting things. This is how Dr Oerjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University announced the approach of a climate apocalypse in an e-mail sent last week from the Russian research ship Jakob Smirnitskyi in the Arctic Ocean. “We had a hectic finishing [...]
