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Climate Central: Climate scientists have long fretted about the hundreds of billions of tons of methane frozen under the floor of the Arctic Ocean. If the water warms enough, some of that methane could escape. Nobody knows how soon or how quickly such a release might happen, but since methane is a far more potent heat-trapping gas than the more familiar carbon dioxide, it could add to the temperature increase already under way thanks largely to human emissions from fossil fuel burning.
But frozen Arctic methane......
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Antarctic Methane: A New Factor in the Climate Equation
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 29th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation