Apologies for my silence recently – I just finished writing some final exams that I missed for the AGU conference, so I’ve been studying hard ever since Boxing Day. I am working on a larger piece about climate models: an introduction to how they work and why they are useful. That will take about a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘methane’
Very Scary Stuff
Posted in News and Reports, tagged arctic, climate change, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, methane, science on August 19, 2009 | 7 Comments »
One of the most worrying positive feedbacks of our current climate change lies deep in the Arctic permafrost and the ocean – methane hydrates. Methane loosely bonds to water, which freezes and lies stable…..until it melts. When it gets warm enough, the methane breaks apart from the water and is released into the atmosphere, or [...]
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