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To: onepath who wrote (14396)7/28/2010 12:04:55 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 23088
 
Exactly, the feedback loop is HUGE and super duper dangerous

and once the top few feet of peat is melted the peat fires can burn forever really. As the permafrost of methane hydrates melts it gives a larger area to keep burning. And that peat goes down hundreds of feet in places.

The first three feet of arctic tundra holds approximately 100 billion tons of methan hydrates which are 25 times the greenhouse gas of carbon dioxide.

This will also increase arctic ice melting (ash), which allows more heat to be absorbed in the arctic ocean, which creates a larger high pressure area in the winter each year, which affects the jet stream even more, which---------add you own variables.

We could easily be past the tipping point. The right wing will be the downfall of the human species because they just will not cooperate to do something about it. They believe the coal and oil companies lies about GW being a fraud. Just like the cigarette companies used to tell us about cigarettes not causing cancer or being addictive. Some people will believe anything.

The last two years up here have been the warmest I have seen in 40 years. Our weather for the last two years has been like Seattles weather.

I went up to our local glacier and was shocked by the amount of melt this year. It is just melting like an ice cube on a table.

And the arctic has been really hot all summer. This years arctic pack ice melt will exceed the 2007 record, which was historical and even surprised the scientists.
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