Climate 'tech fixes' urged for Arctic methane
Scientists told UK MPs this week that the possibility of a major methane release triggered by melting Arctic ice constitutes a "planetary emergency".
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Title: Climate 'tech fixes' urged for Arctic methane
Description: Scientists told UK MPs this week that the possibility of a major methane release triggered by melting Arctic ice constitutes a "planetary emergency".
Url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17400804
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My Notes
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The BBC Science and Environment article, by Richard Black, discusses several connected ideas.
The basic scenario is::
global warming causes
increased melting of Arctic sea-ice, which causes
release of frozen methane from the Arctic sea-bed, which causes
more global warming
The specific news event reported by the BBC, is that a British engineer suggested to Parliament that it may be possible to cool the Arctic enough to prevent this run-away cycle, by building::
100 or more towers pumping seawater droplets into the Arctic atmosphere
Additional sources of information include::
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/
http://www.mech.ed.ac.uk/research/wavepower/Stephen Salter/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_ocean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_release
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