danger from below
Jan. 30th, 2003 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbEric Alterman offers this bit of copyright violation (scroll down to the subhead "DANGER FROM BELOW"), from New Scientist vol. 176, issue 2373. You know how the atmosphere is warming? And how the oceans are warming? And how the ice in the oceans is melting? Apparently the deep ocean ice is full of trapped methane. And also, we now learn, full of holes. And the holes mean that the ice is likely to melt faster than anticipated. And release the methane into the atmosphere. And guess what? Once released into the atmosphere, all that methane will contribute to global warming. A snowball effect, only, not cold.
