Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost

Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 3 months ago to Science
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This seems to be a valid item that does need investigation, I object to the statement that the bacteria starting up exudes "climate changing gasses like carbon dioxide and methane" Propaganda mixed with science....yuck..


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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 7 years, 3 months ago
    Now that's interesting! Maybe they could did chunks of that stuff out and find ways to use it as fuel--perhaps put it into stoves or something.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They were pretty dumb animals. Take the La Brea tar pits Which contains what appears to be endless amounts of ancient dinosaur bones.. You'd think that after several hundred years, even the dumbest critters would learn to avoid them. Ah well, "There's a limit to intelligence, but no limit to stupidity" --Red Skelton Of course Red was referring to humans , but the comment is pretty universal.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, one of the questions no one has addressed is how did all those damn mammoth bones, sabre cat bones, and the host of other items they find under deep layers get there? This was 20-30K years ago, obviously in lush vegitation, and then they end up 100 feet under ground? Someone fold the planet?
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Which is now standard procedure in politics and social issue debate, Logic and clear thinking are banned in such venues...
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well proven theory experimentally, I have watched the experiment they did, and the physics works. It is just trying to show how a ship found such a spot in the Triangle at the right time. There were a few scientists trying to show that the release of frozen methane from the sea bottom far outweighs any human inputs in regards to damage to the atmosphere, but I guess since no one could figure out a good looting angle, they went with the cap and trade boondoggle.....
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And that was one of the events that brought on the "Severity" Dalton minimum...And, the carrington event, although not caused by volcanic eruptions, was a short time after that...about 1860?
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  • Posted by Casebier 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The 1883 eruption of Mt. Krakatoa and the 1815 eruption of supervalcano Mt. Tambora, both in Indonesia, caused volcanic winters. The eruption of Mt. Toba 70K+ yrs ago caused a worldwide ice age and almost the extinction of humans.
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  • Posted by NealS 7 years, 3 months ago
    If I was a lot younger I'd buy up a whole bunch of frozen property way up north somewhere. Just think of the potential real estate fortunes to be made when things really start to heat up. I've still got a small piece of land in southern California if anyone is interested in buying it.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 3 months ago
    Who is messing with our chocolate cake?
    The Eco-Freaks have been warning us about catastrophes for many years. I'll give them credit for ingenuity.
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  • Posted by rbunce 7 years, 3 months ago
    Scientists Find Massive Amounts Of Carbon In Plants, Animals, and Rocks Around The World.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 7 years, 3 months ago
    Well, CO2 (Carbonation in Sodas) is released as soda gets warm (Soda goes flat). We all know this, but forget it.

    Of course as the Oceans melt, or ice melts, trapped CO2 is released. So, High CO2 is CORRELATED with Warming, but may clearly not be causative.

    Especially if are earth was covered with a LOT of water. LOL
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years, 3 months ago
    The bigger issue is the amount of frozen methane gas in the ocean floors over quite extensive regions. The oil and gas industry has been researching how to mine this resource, but no answers as to how to get it to release controllably, and how to capture it without too much leakage. Methane is a serious greenhouse gas, and on occasion, volcanic activity has heated a fairly large amount, causing it to bubble to the surface. There are suspicions, hard to confirm, that several unexplained ship disappearances in calm weather may have been caused by methane bubbles that caused a loss of buoyancy.
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  • Posted by coaldigger 7 years, 3 months ago
    It all goes back to "original sin", somehow everything man does is evil, is against the will of God and must be punished. There are those that believe that if you really care about others you will kill yourself for the benefit of the group. Every observation in nature is used to support this "truth" because it isn't rational but needs to be accepted on faith. One of the best ways is to highjack the observation of a very complex phenomena and state, as fact, a conclusion based on an ideology.
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  • Posted by wiggys 7 years, 3 months ago
    OH MY GOD THE WORLD IS GOING TO END BY BLOWING ITS TOP.
    maybe the reason the tunnel they are walking through and looking at is warming because they took out all of the dirt. another government project giving incorrect information. would they say the same thing if they couldn't see into the mountain so they would be someplace else? what a joke!!!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 3 months ago
    Hungry ancient bacteria are waking up?
    Help, save us, Al Gore!
    Help, save us, Paris Peace Accord!
    Save us from all those bacteria farts!
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Another little piece of GW illogic. The system compensates and uses other inputs beyond a few gasses, like solar power, cloud density, volcanic action, even some forms of chemical breakdowns in high atmosphere from solar rays, all contributing one way or another. It is a super complex mechanism with constantly changing values.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago
    Hmm...seems to me that something quite similar happened in Alaska around 400 years ago when it was warmer there than it was in the Deep South...they had a name for that time, I can't quite remember...
    Oh, I remember now...can you say: Grand Solar Minimum?
    With slightly warmer weather, and some much needed carbon...maybe we could grow crops in Alaska while the midwest and deep south freezes over?
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    To beat the warming band, the Philippines got SNOW a week or two ago as reported by David at adapt2030.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It has always made sense to me that warming climates release CO2 -- which is why the Vostok ice core studies show a correlation between CO2 and temperature -- with temperature leading.

    Al Gore famously used this correlation leaving off the fact that it appeared to show that CO2 reacted to warming rather than the other way areound.

    AGW advocates explain this by saying that that the warming releases CO2 which then increases the warming -- except that describes a feedback loop and the system should destroy itself the first time it happens.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, the Philippines may help out a bit, real soon....I am waiting for someone to complain the magma erupting is heating the earth up.....
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