The global methane bomb is starting to detonate
{The Global Methane Bomb – if this were to happen our world will become uninhabitable very quickly indeed}
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The global methane bomb is starting to detonate
With each passing year, our own relatively puny emissions are pushing these ancient cycles further out of balance. If they turn against us, the effects could be devastating.
For all the damage that humanity is causing through our production of greenhouse gases, the numbers involved can seem impossibly slight. Every year we release about 9.6 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere as CO2, or carbon dioxide – but there’s about 58 trillion tons stored away in organic and fossil matter in the atmosphere, land, and oceans.
For decades, that has suggested an alarming prospect. By heating the planet, we risk changing the delicate conditions that ensure those trillions of tons stay locked up in soils, plants, and seawater.
Tip the balance too far, and we might provide the catalyst for these immense natural reserves to start disgorging themselves, like a bottle of soda fizzing up when it’s opened.
The result could be a “methane bomb” — a rapid and devastating release of greenhouse gases that could overwhelm our best efforts to hold back warming.
NASA monitors Methane in our atmosphere
Today’s link to our other pages and posts . . . Methane Emissions Must be Eliminated as a No 1 Priority
{We must act now to prevent the global methane bomb occurring}
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