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Arctic Ocean leaking methane at alarming rate, researchers say | Local News | The Seattle Times
FAIRBANKS, Alaska Ounce for ounce, methane has an effect on global warming more than 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and its leaking from the Arctic Ocean at an alarming rate, according to new research by scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Their article, which appeared Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience, states that the Arctic Ocean is releasing methane at a rate more than twice what scientific models had previously anticipated.
Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov at the universitys International Arctic Research Center have spent more than a decade researching the Arctics greenhouse-gas emissions, along with scientists from Russia, Europe and the Lower 48.
Shakhova, the lead author of the most recent report, said the methane release rate likely is even greater than their paper describes.
The news on this front just keeps getting worse. The 'Alarmists' make predictions that seem pretty extreme, then nature proceeds to exceed their predictions.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska Ounce for ounce, methane has an effect on global warming more than 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and its leaking from the Arctic Ocean at an alarming rate, according to new research by scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Their article, which appeared Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience, states that the Arctic Ocean is releasing methane at a rate more than twice what scientific models had previously anticipated.
Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov at the universitys International Arctic Research Center have spent more than a decade researching the Arctics greenhouse-gas emissions, along with scientists from Russia, Europe and the Lower 48.
Shakhova, the lead author of the most recent report, said the methane release rate likely is even greater than their paper describes.
The news on this front just keeps getting worse. The 'Alarmists' make predictions that seem pretty extreme, then nature proceeds to exceed their predictions.