Methane Melt: The Most Important Story You Don’t Follow

I was told by Mr.Fisher to look for a topic to write about and I stumbled upon this subject on global warming.  I found this topic on my igoogle. When I found this I thought that its so true that we don’t follow whats happening with global warming. Its ruining our planet and we aren’t even following it to see whats going on and if we can stop it. I think that people need to find out  what they can do to help stop global warming. Here is a scientist talking about how its to early to tell if dangerous amounts of methane are being released into the atmosphere.

At the Worldchanging website, Natalie Shakhova says:

“it was too soon to say whether the findings suggest that a dangerous release of methane looms. In a telephone news conference, she said researchers were only beginning to track the movement of this methane into the atmosphere as the undersea permafrost that traps it degrades. But climate experts familiar with the new research reported in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that even though it does not suggest imminent climate catastrophe, it is important because of methane’s role as a greenhouse gas. Although carbon dioxide is far more abundant and persistent in the atmosphere, ton for ton atmospheric methane traps at least 25 times as much heat.”

Thats crazy how much heat we will get because of methane. That means that cows are the main source of global warming and all the heat from the atmosphere. I think I will eat more beef to help save the world from global warming. I mean come on the cows we eat create 2 million tons of methane a year. They create more methane than the humans in Canada. I say we kill the cows and live longer lives with out global warming. What do you think about that. If you want to tell me something just leave a comment on the blog and I will get back to you.

Did you know that there is a huge hole in the ozone lair above Australia. The hole is bigger than the continent. Thats crazy no wonder they have extremely hot summers. I have friends from there they came to Canada and it was winter here and they were having summer there. It can be very hot in the summer in Australia with the UV rays from the sun.

This is a chart of the methane levels from 2004 to 20o8. the black line is what it should be and the red ling is what it was. Thats crazy how much the methane levels have risen in 2008.

Here is a link to a site that will tell you about what methane is and what it can do. http://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/methane/methane_explanation.pdf

This video tells you all about the methane being released from under the Arctic Ocean. Thats to much methane help prevent Global Warming.

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