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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4reuters.com, Mon Jan 8, 2007 10:12am ET, "NY gas smell shuts trains, forces evacuations"
.. could be a mains leak, or ...
Here's 3 reports that hint at the possibility that positive feedbacks to the Climate may be kicking in, but one should be aware that these are all initial reports and will require a lot more measurements to quantity the figures correctly.
The first report: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/0609071028...8.htm
"Greenhouse Gas Bubbling From Melting Permafrost Feeds Climate Warming" discusses findings published in the science journal Nature last Sept...
.. has found that as the permafrost melts in North Siberia due to climate change, carbon sequestered and buried there since the Pleistocene era is bubbling up to the surface of Siberian thaw lakes and into the atmosphere as methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
In turn, that bubbling methane held captive as carbon under the permafrost for more than 40,000 years is accelerating global warming by heating the Earth even more --- exacerbating the entire cycle. The ominous implications of the process grow as the permafrost decomposes further and the resulting lakes continue to expand, according to FSU oceanography Professor Jeff Chanton and study co-authors at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
The second report covers events in Siberia: Methane Flux From Arctic Tundras: It's The Hydrology, Stupid! at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/0604042003...8.htm
... and basically outlines how the permafrost in the tundra which is beginning to melt is both absorb and release CO-2, and in areas that are flooded, it releases methane. There seems to be some indications that the flooded areas of which there is quite a bit, because there are big rivers there and it is very flat, are net greenhouse gas emitters whereas the dryers areas tend to be net absorbers....
And finally in this audio report: Bubbling Methane in the Beaufort http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/media/2006-2007/mp3...e.mp3
...discusses the discovery of methane bubbling up from probably methane hydrates in the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic. This is only a recent discovery and seems to have occured because of an influx of slightly warmer water along the sea-bed, warming the hydrates.....
It is from this page: http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/archives/06-07/jan2....html and originally reported from here: http://www.energybulletin.net/25628.html
The common factor in all of these findings are that they are potentially quite strong positive feedback mechanisms and whilst they have been thought about amongst scientists over the years, it was expected that these sort of effects would kick in much later. As with the fairly rapid increase in the rate of melting of the Greenland ice-pack, these events have caught the scientific community by surprise for the speed at which they have begun. It would seem that the intensity of the rapid rise of greenhouse gases and other changes in such geologically short times (~200 yrs or so) means that this spike is much more rapid than previous times for which past records -as in ice cores are available. So it is possible the mechanisms at play both positive and negative are interacting a little bit different than before.
Livestock are responsible for 18% of global methane emissions!
jasper please tell us something we don't know