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To: Brumar89 who wrote (10281)2/24/2012 12:36:00 PM
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depends on how you define massive

Compare methane concentrations over the Arctic Ocean and Siberia this January versus last January: ftp://asl.umbc.edu/pub/yurganov/methane/MAPS/NH/ARCTpolar2012.01._AIRS_C...

ftp://asl.umbc.edu/pub/yurganov/methane/MAPS/NH/ARCTpolar2011.01._AIRS_C...

Further commentary:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-currier/methane-in-the-twilight-z_2...

Here's the 2 images combined as an animated gif. January 2011 and January 2012



Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas

Russian research team astonished after finding 'fountains' of methane bubbling to surface

Steve Connor

Tuesday 13 December 2011



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Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.

independent.co.uk
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