{"id":396817,"date":"2010-03-06T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6779214069940998455.post-7624575936568697269"},"modified":"2010-03-06T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T13:59:18","slug":"feedback-cuts-in-the-vast-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-methane-stores-are-destabilizing-and-venting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/396817","title":{"rendered":"Feedback cuts in: The vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores are destabilizing and venting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116532&amp;org=NSF&amp;from=news%20\">disturbing research report<\/a> on increases in methane leakage in the Arctic. Methane leakage is most immediate climate change feedback loop threat we face &#8211; increased leakage means we have less time to shift to a zero-carbon world than previously thought.<br \/>NSF issues world a wake-up call: &#8220;Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research was undertaken jointly by scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/03\/04\/science-nsf-tundra-permafrost-methane-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-venting\/\">Climate Progress blog coverage of the report<\/a> is the best thing to read. Check out the well-informed blog comments as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6779214069940998455-7624575936568697269?l=blog.seankidney.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a disturbing research report on increases in methane leakage in the Arctic. Methane leakage is most immediate climate change feedback loop threat we face &#8211; increased leakage means we have less time to shift to a zero-carbon world than previously thought.NSF issues world a wake-up call: &#8220;Release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}