Melt of Methane Hydrates = Calamity?

One more bad news, global warming also carry a potential disaster for the planet of us, namely melt of methane hydrates: metana stored frozen in the form of ice. The amount is enough surprise: 3.000 times that of metana at this time in the atmosphere.

Metana save the planet earth frozen in a very large amount; called methane hydrates, or methane clathrates. Methane hydrates usually found in the polar north and south poles, where surface water temperatures of less than 0 degrees Celsius, or on the sea floor depth of more than 300 meters, where the water temperature in the range of 2 degrees Celsius. Methane hydrates are also found in lakes in which, like Lake Baikal in Siberia. Metana is a gas with greenhouse emissions 23 times more violent of carbon dioxide (CO2), which means that gas is a contributor for a very bad global warming is in progress.

Bad news is global warming temperatures create ice in the polar north and south poles into the summer, so metana stored in the frozen layer of ice on both poles are also apart to the atmosphere. Scientists estimate that the Antarctic save approximately 400 billion tons of frozen metana, and this gas is released slowly to the atmosphere along with the many parts of the ice in Antarctica that collapse. You can imagine how blot this situation: When the loss of the entire Antarctic the ice layer, then the 400 billion tons metana will be released to the atmosphere! This does not include metana stored frozen in the bottom of the sea that is also threatened because the summer melt temperature of the oceans due to global warming.

Once triggered, this cycle will result in global warming is so severe may be able to come!

Is this a fantasy made up by scientists and environmental activists, scientists paranoid? Unfortunately not. Geological evidence that strong states have at least two times the planet we have this incident.

The geologist found that this great catastrophe had occurred approximately 55 million years ago which is called by scientists as the Paleocene-Eocene Era Thermal Maximum (PETM). When it bursts metana rise to the surface so that the resulting warming the planet very quickly and cause mass deaths, disrupt the climate and the earth until 100,000 years later.

PETM addition, this great misfortune also happened 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, in which bursts metana wipe out almost all life on planet earth.

More than 94% of marine species we now see as a fossil extinction due to a sudden drop in oxygen level. More than 500,000 years later, some of the remaining species struggle to survive in the environment that are not are friends.

Then how about the situation we now? With a frozen deposit metana many extraordinary, with the size of the region in the eternal ice that polar melt, with the summer sea temperature, and by finding the point where some start metana frozen surface of the earth to gush. So we really ought to worry!

It is time for us to take share in the business of stopping global warming continues to occur. We have proved that it human / main contributor to global warming that our planet experienced. Let us act soon! Until we do not repeat the geological history of the beetle never experienced this planet!

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