Comments on: The Weekly Carboholic: as the Arctic melts

By: Scholars and Rogues » Trust us – we’re smarter than you: climate and Superfreakonomics

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:16:08 +0000

[...] they don’t yet agree on the best ways to model clouds and aerosols (two areas that scientists have made significant advances in since the publication of the IPCC AR4 in 2007). But neither of these issues [...]

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:43:27 +0000

What I find interesting is that the global warming supporters seem to never mention the primary source of greenhouse gases; raising livestock. Why is it that people focus on cars and power plants and such, when these are not the main source of the problem?

By: Edward Fields

Edward Fields — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:25:58 +0000

Everyone should read ‘Under a Green Sky’ by Peter D. Ward to gain an appreciation of just how catastrophic these methane releases really are.

By: Brian Angliss

Brian Angliss — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:03:14 +0000

Thankfully, that depends on how much is released how fast in a given area. Too high a concentration will kill marine and land organisms, but below a certain concentration, methane isn’t fatal. But there have been suspected examples of methane releases from hydrates off the coast of Africa that killed entire coastal villages, if memory serves. It’s similar to the deadly volcanic lakes where CO2 builds up underwater and every so often “burps” out and kills every animal downhill for a certain distance.

By: however

however — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:56:11 +0000

The article is not mentioning one side effect of methane–death to oxygen breathing organisms. Methane is sewer gas, and a huge release of this gas would asphyxiate all of us. A nasty way to go.