Mother Nature is about to take a huge massive deadly FART on the biosphere, thanks to Westernization of the planet.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15872
It was shown that slight changes in seafloor erosion and sedimentation
patterns that change the thermal and pressure regime below the seafloor
could be viable mechanisms for unroofing underlying gas reservoirs,
which can release CH
4 in large quantities
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Once initiated, erosion could propagate further downward and migrate
laterally to adjacent areas, driven by venting gas. Erosion of a few
tens of seafloor metres could unroof over-pressured shallow gas
reservoirs and buoyant hydrate-laden sediment accumulations beneath the
seafloor, triggering rapid gas release
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Natalia Shakhova, is an associate research professor at the
University of Alaska, Fairbanks’ International Arctic Research Center,
told
Truthout that,
“These emissions are prone to be non-gradual
(massive, abrupt) for a variety of reasons,” and that, “The main reason
is that the nature of major processes associated with methane releases
from subsea permafrost is non-gradual.”
What that means is that an
estimated 50-gigaton methane release is possible at any moment, or in
her words,
“highly possible at any time.”
Mrs. Shakhova isn’t
alone in her views, in July of 2013 the journal Nature published a study
that confirmed this apocalyptic prediction. In addition to Nature, the
UK’s Met Office considers a 50-gigaton methane release from the arctic
to be “plausible,”
The Met went on to say that, “
That may cause
∼12-times increase of modern atmospheric methane burden, with consequent
catastrophic greenhouse warming.”
Back to Dr. Natalia Shakhova:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/tpu-rsd081517.php
According to our findings published earlier in Nature Geoscience,
Science and Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, the size of CH4
bubble flow from the bottom sediments into the ESAS water can vary from
milligrams to tens or hundreds of grams per square meter a day depending
on the state of subsea permafrost, which leads to the concentration
increase of atmospheric CH4 in the surface layer to values 2-4 times
exceeding background concentrations measured in our planet,'
says the
first author of the paper Professor Natalia Shakhova, the TPU Department
of Geology and Minerals Prospecting.
She notes that these findings were confirmed during the
expedition to the East Siberian Arctic Self in 2016. The expedition was
organized and conducted jointly with the scientists from the Pacific
Oceanological Institute FEB RAS, with the participation of the Institute
of Oceanology RAS and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS. More
data will be published in 2018.
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