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Leaving this here as it’s both relevant and terrifying: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/27/sleeping-giant-arctic-methane-deposits-starting-to-rele
by headmelted 6y ago
Leaving this here as it’s both relevant and terrifying:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/27/sleeping-giant-arctic-methane-deposits-starting-to-release-scientists-find https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/27/sleeping-gia...
“ Scientists have found evidence that frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean – known as the sleeping giants of the carbon cycle – have started to be released over a large area of the continental slope off the East Siberian coast, the Guardian can reveal.
High levels of the potent greenhouse gas have been detected down to a depth of 350 metres in the Laptev Sea near Russia, prompting concern among researchers that a new climate feedback loop may have been triggered that could accelerate the pace of global heating.”
Catastrophic climate change is now on a timeline of months rather than decades.
- kasey_junk 6y agoThe quote in this comment is accurate (and alarming enough on its own) but nothing in the linked article indicates that “Catastrophic climate change is now on a timeline of months...”