{"id":2039,"date":"2008-09-24T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2008-09-24T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T16:17:00","slug":"screwed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"Screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/008702.html\">we&#8217;re screwed<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><em>In the past few days, the researchers have seen areas of sea foaming with gas bubbling up through &#8220;methane chimneys&#8221; rising from the sea floor. They believe that the sub-sea layer of permafrost, which has acted like a &#8220;lid&#8221; to prevent the gas from escaping, has melted away to allow methane to rise from underground deposits formed before the last ice age.<\/p>\n<p>They have warned that this is likely to be linked with the rapid warming that the region has experienced in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Methane is about 20 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and many scientists fear that its release could accelerate global warming in a giant positive feedback where more atmospheric methane causes higher temperatures, leading to further permafrost melting and the release of yet more methane.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Still &#8220;unconfirmed,&#8221; but hey &#8230; positive feedback loop anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, we&#8217;re screwed. <\/p>\n<p>In the past few days, the researchers have seen areas of sea foaming with gas bubbling up through &#8220;methane chimneys&#8221; rising from the sea floor. They believe that the sub-sea layer of permafrost, which has acted like a &#8220;lid&#8221; to prevent the gas from escaping, has melted away to allow methane <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2039\">Screwed<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}