It\u2019s probably not the words you want to hear from a leading figure on climate change.<\/p>\n
But Jason Box, a professor at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland reckons, \u201cWe\u2019re f**ked\u201d.<\/p>\n
He made the remarks on his twitter account after a team of scientists made an alarming discovery.<\/p>\n
It appears that huge quantities of methane gas are leaking from the sea floor under the arctic and rising into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
Methane is one of the most dangerous greenhouse gasses as it traps far more heat than other gases, such as carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n
And this increased temperature is helping to warm up parts of the Earth at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n
Box told website Motherboard, “Even if a small fraction of the Arctic carbon were released to the atmosphere, we’re f**ked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMethane is more than 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping infrared as part of the natural greenhouse effect.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Methane getting to the surface\u2014that’s potent stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
“The conventional thought is that the bubbles would be dissolved before they reached the surface.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if the plumes are making it to the surface, that’s a brand new source of heat-trapping gases that we need to worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n
What makes this news even more concerning is that the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on earth.<\/p>\n
And, as the ocean gets hotter, more methane gets pumped into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
It’s all happening fast and Box thinks things could change very rapidly, “I may escape a lot of this, but my daughter might not. She’s 3 years old.”<\/p>\n
This news comes as giant sinkholes discovered in Siberia have been linked to changing temperatures on the planet.<\/p>\n
The holes are forming as long-frozen permafrost thaws due to increased heat, the earth around it then collapses.<\/p>\n
And given the right conditions, some scientists are concerned that something similar could happen in other places around the globe.<\/p>\n
Carolyn Ruppel, chief of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Gas Hydrates Project, told NBC News,\u00a0“Global warming is happening, and it’s exacerbated in the Arctic.<\/p>\n
“And if these craters are related to permafrost thaw, it’s a very visible effect of what’s happening to the Earth.”<\/p>\n
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Source:\u00a0dailystar.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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