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Climate crisis: Plumes of methane stretching ‘hundreds of kilometres’ rising from Arctic seabed

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This isn’t good :worried:

"“This may be the first comprehensive observation of active release from methane hydrates on the Siberian-Arctic slope system,” the team added.

When methane is released into the atmosphere, it is 86 to 105 times as powerful as carbon dioxide at disrupting the climate over a 20-year period.

Vast amounts of methane are stored in the Arctic in natural gas deposits, permafrost, and as undersea clathrates - a solid compound of water and methane similar to ice.

Like the permafrost on land, clathrates degrade on warming, releasing the stored methane which then causes further warming. This in turn can stimulate both the production of methane (through the rotting of organic material), and its release, in a heating feedback cycle."

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Thanks ED

Yes, this is truly horrifying if it gets confirmed. Another loop in the noose around our collective necks…

I remember reading about this very thing in the original Deep Adaptation paper by Jem Bendell - something that several people subsequently attacked him for at the time. I thought I’d go and see if he had anything to say about this, and he does. I find his voice a moving, honest and compassionate one. I found this piece helpful. Hope you do too

Cheers mate