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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Shakhova & Semiletov have discovered spots in the Arctic Ocean where mass emissions of methane can be observed

Methane emissions discovered in Arctic Ocean

Readers, there is a difference between what the scientists found last year and this year.  This year, the spots of methane emissions are larger than one kilometer in diameter.  I am not sure what the photo signifies.  It might be showing the bubbling part next to a sea ice flow, but since there is no caption for the photo, this is just speculation.




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Photo: RIA Novosti

Russian scientists have discovered spots in the Arctic Ocean where mass emissions of methane can be observed.

from the Voice of Russia Radio News, September 15, 2012

According to the press-service of the expedition aboard The Viktor Buinitsky research vessel, the diameter of some of the ‘methane fields’ found in the northern part of the Laptev Sea exceeds 1 kilometre.

The new discoveries will help to understand the mechanism of global warming on Earth, experts believe. In their opinion, emissions of methane could have catastrophic consequences for the climate of our planet.

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