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Arctic Methane
Our most immediate climate change problem is Arctic methane
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Katey Walter demonstrates methane
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Methane mixed with water and frozen is called methane hydrate
It is ice that will burn
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Methane hydrate on the ocean floor
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Methane Ice Burgs
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Methane Ice
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Methane Plumes
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Methane Hydrate Plug
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Methane Foaming
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Methane bubbling from ocean floor. Methane gas has 170 times the volume of
the original hydrate.
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Sonar of methane plumes
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Methane Pingo
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Types and locations of Methane Hydrate Deposits
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The East
The East Siberian Arctic Shelf . It contains vast amounts of hydrates
siberian
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The Gakkek Ridge is an extension of the Mid Atlantic Ridge
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Methane escapes into the atmosphere
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Methane above the Arctic in January of 2012
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Permafrost is thawing and creating methane producing thaw lakes
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Warmer water is flowing into the Arctic Ocean
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Thaw lakes and peat bogs east of the Ural Mountains
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An Arctic Circle river delta
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Shorelines are subject to erosion without the protection of sea ice. Permafrost
thawing exposes yedoma. Large amounts of Methane and CO2 escape from these
areas.
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After the permafrost thaws, the ground subsides and dries out.
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When the “ground” dries out it becomes susceptible to fires. Lighting strikes have increased 20%
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As of 9/03/2012 Arctic Summer Sea Ice extent and volume has decreased by 81%
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PIOMAS expects the summer Arctic Sea Ice to be gone by about 2015
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First significant acknowledgement that a feedback system has started
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“Amplifying each other” means the dreaded feedback system has started
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NCAR’s HIPPO project flew through various levels taking samples
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HIPPO discovered methane coming up from all over the Arctic Ocean
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Methane hydrate regions
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Methane eruption centers or torches
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What happens if we don’t deal with methane? Here is one estimate.
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Here is one thing we can do
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Methane is no longer a greenhouse gas with one hydrogen atom removed
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Rockwell/Collins engineers have been helpful but Rockwell/Collins
has not taken up the project.
• It was discovered that HAARP already has Radio Frequency Transmitters in operation. An adjustment in frequencies could test for sure whether or not methane can be decomposed in the atmosphere.
• Lt. Col. Kleiman has received the project proposal and has forwarded it to the HAARP Project Director. HAARP’s major source of funding is the US NAVY. Contact your representative and ask them to make sure HAARP takes up this project.
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It was recently discovered that the Antarctic has about three times as much methane as the Arctic.