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To: Sea Otter who wrote (69453)	9/25/2007 1:26:07 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Although atmospheric methane more than doubled over the past 1000 years--it has not increased much very recently, topped out? windows.ucar.edu You see a lot about tipping points and positive feedbacks, but it might also be true that as new forest grows and especially as soil microorganism productivity increases across Canada and Russia that a strong negative feedback emerges--damping out further methane increase. Methane deposits released from the sea bed could vastly overwhelm any uptake on land however--but it seems unlikely that ocean temperatures could warm nearly enough to do that in our lifetime, and even our children's lifetime. Just a quick bit of surfing and I see that a temperature increase that would cause an oceanic methane burp might be something on the order of 5C. That warming is likely for the arctic atmosphere, but ocean bottom temperatures (I would guess) would have a huge lagtime. That is my 60 second take on it anyway. There seem to be experts on this blog here, might be worth bookmarking: blogs.nature.com