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Global Warming Impact: Methane release

  • 08-04-2013 12:07am
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    fishmahboi
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭


    This thread is on the topic of a worst case climactic scenario whereas a Methane calamity hits earth in the sense that the earth experiences a methane release similar to that of the Permian whereas a Methane release decimated over 90% of the population of the earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian) whereas Methane is released abruptly and causes temperatures to rise steeply.

    There are two scenarios surrounding this that are notable and are shown by two sites, one which is the Arctic News Blog that talks about implications of releases of Methane with one of them being the earth delving into a Runaway Global Warming (according to an article related to the Blog the earth heating by 10 degrees centigrade by 2039 (http://methane-hydrates.blogspot.ie/)

    However another site talks about this in more detail and most would know of this site as it was linked in the When and How Bad Thread and what I mean by going into detail is that the site talks about the earlier extinction periods that were caused by methane, the two ways in which methane can be released and the implications for the releases along with the damage that can be done to earth which is rather more permanent in the sense that it would take millions of years for the earth to finally recover.

    Site: http://killerinourmidst.com/now.html

    The two ways in which methane is released according to the site is that it either releases its load abruptly through the slumping of slopes or though more gradual venting that occurs over a number of decades.

    The site states that in order for Methane to actually rise to the point of a catastrophe is for the release to be ongoing over a short period of time (the maximum of amount of time according to the site is one thousand years, although the site notates that the timescale could be considerably less).

    So basically this thread is to discuss what people feel about the threats posed by large scale methane releases.


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