{"id":540409,"date":"2010-04-22T19:42:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/wide-spread-release-of-methane-from-arctic-shelf-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:42:16","slug":"extensive-release-of-methane-gas-from-arctic-shelf-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/540409","title":{"rendered":"Extensive Release of Methane Gas from Arctic Shelf Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/rsz_782px-methane_chimney_01_usgs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5898\" title=\"rsz_782px-methane_chimney_01_usgs\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/rsz_782px-methane_chimney_01_usgs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Illustration showing methane chimney from sea floor to surface (USGS)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h5>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><em>A team of scientists confirms that sea-bottom and surface waters of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf are &#8220;super-saturated&#8221;\u00a0 with Methane (CH4) gas and &#8220;out-gassing&#8221; this potent GHG to the Atmosphere.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>A variable quantity known as the &#8220;venting flux&#8221; was calculated for the ESAS and found to be nearly equal to that amount from the entire World Ocean. Previous calculations by climate scientists estimated that &#8220;remobilization&#8221; of only a small fraction of of this trapped methane could potentially trigger &#8220;abrupt climate warming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/wide-spread-release-of-methane-from-arctic-shelf-confirmed\/#more-5848\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration showing methane chimney from sea floor to surface (USGS) A team of scientists confirms that sea-bottom and surface waters of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf are &#8220;super-saturated&#8221;\u00a0 with Methane (CH4) gas and &#8220;out-gassing&#8221; this potent GHG to the Atmosphere. A variable quantity known as the &#8220;venting flux&#8221; was calculated for the ESAS and found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540409","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\/6627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}