Frightening things hitherto unthought of are beginning to surface with respect to Global Warming. Last posting I drew attention to the permafrost Theory. Here’s Quoting University of Florida News:
“Permafrost soil blanketing northeastern Siberia contains about 75 times more carbon than is released by burning fossil fuels each year. That means it could become a potent, likely unstoppable contributor to global climate change if it continues to thaw.
So conclude three scientists in a paper set to appear Friday in the journal Science.
“Unfortunately, it’s another large pool of carbon on the list that could move into the atmosphere with continued warming,” said co-author Ted Schuur, an assistant professor of ecology in the University of Florida botany department. “You start thawing the permafrost, microbes release carbon dioxide, that makes things warmer, more permafrost thaws and the process continues.”
The permafrost soil, which covers nearly 400,000 square miles of northeast Siberia and averages 82 feet in depth, contains about 500 billion metric tons of carbon, the scientists concluded. Cars, power plants and other fossil fuel consumers release at least 6 billion metric tons annually. If all the Siberian permafrost thawed, decomposed and released its carbon in the form of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, it could nearly double the 730 billion metric tons of carbon in the atmosphere presently — an outcome that would have huge warming impact.”
So the release rate of greenhouse gases is 75 times….add to that methane being 21 times effective than carbon dioxide. So you can imagine the acceleration rate of global warming.
IN REALITY…THIS ACCELERATED RATE HAS ALREADY STARTED…..WHICH IS WHY YOU ARE HAVING THESE SUPERHURRICANES, SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS,, SEVERE RAIN & FLOODING…..
Such severe weather we are experiencing now CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY THE NORMAL RATE OF GLOBAL WARMING
