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Ice free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe - scientist
2013-07-24 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A new paper in the journal Nature argues that the release of a 50 Gigatonne (Gt) methane pulse from thawing Arctic permafrost could destabilise the climate system and trigger costs as high as the value of the entire world's GDP. The East Siberian Arctic Shelf's (ESAS) reservoir of methane gas hydrates could be released slowly over 50 years or "catastrophically fast" in a matter of decades if not even one decade the researchers said. Not everyone agrees that the paper's scenario of a catastrophic...
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