Melt ice will liberate hundreds of millions of tons of methane gas

A team of Russian researchers led by Dr Igor Semiletov of the Russian Academy of Sciences has conducted a wide-scale survey of the seafloor of the Arctic shelf discovered by the Arctic Ocean: methane (a gas causing the greenhouse effect is 20 times more potent than _CO2) is bubbling over many areas of the Arctic Ocean surface.

Russian researcher Lavrentiev, who conducted a 10,000-square-mile study off the coast of East Siberia, has deployed tools to monitor more than 100 "fountains" of the same structure. like a torch; with bubbles of methane bubbling in these water columns, which are emitting directly into the atmosphere from deep below the seabed.

"About hundreds of millions of tons of methane gas are trapped in the Arctic frozen continent." One of the biggest concerns is: the ice melting summer in the Arctic Sea, and rising temperatures. Rapidly across the entire region, it will cause massive amounts of methane being trapped to suddenly emit into the atmosphere, leading to rapid and severe climate change (globally). weight, " according to the scientists.