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I thought it was perfectly well understood. Hundreds to thousands of megatons of methane is trapped in permafrost. When the warmest point of the year melts the
by Beltiras 7y ago
I thought it was perfectly well understood. Hundreds to thousands of megatons of methane is trapped in permafrost. When the warmest point of the year melts the now ill-named permafrost, methane gets released.
- makomk 7y agoThere's more than one cause. A large chunk of the increased methane emissions come from China industralising in a particularly dirty, coal-burning way and releasing loads of methane in the process: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-china-methane-emissions.html https://phys.org/news/2019-01-china-methane-emissions.html
- DennisP 7y agoThat's one source. The article mentions others. People are trying to figure out which sources are most significant at the moment.