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Date: August 18, 2023 at 19:40:55
From: Mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: methane-fueled 'termination' significant enough to end an ice age |
URL: https://www.space.com/climate-change-termination-event-end-ice-age |
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"A dramatic spike in atmospheric
methane over the past 16 years may
be a sign that Earth's climate
could flip within decades,
scientists have warned."
Ice age terminations typically
occur in three phases, which are
recorded in ice cores going back
800,000 years. The initial phase is
characterized by a gradual rise in
methane and CO2, leading to global
warming over a few thousand years.
This is followed by a sharp
increase in temperatures fueled by
a burst of methane, leveling off in
a third phase lasting several
thousand years.
..."It looks as if there's a big,
new methane source turning on,"
Nisbet said.
A flurry of studies since 2019 has
linked the strange spike to soaring
emissions from tropical wetlands,
predominantly in Africa. A
"significant change" in tropical
weather ascribed to human-caused
climate change has led wetlands to
get bigger and more plants to grow
there, thus leading to more
decomposition — a process that
produces methane, Nisbet said.
In the new study, published July 14
in the journal Global
Biogeochemical Cycles, Nisbet and
colleagues compared current trends
in atmospheric methane to the
abrupt phase of warming during ice
age terminations.
"The closest analogy we have to
what we think is happening today is
these terminations," Nisbet said.
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Date: August 18, 2023 at 20:26:30
From: Mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Interesting... WtFrac |
URL: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/fracking-101#what-is |
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The year 2006 was mentioned... That
was about the time an increase of
fracking took off...
Interesting the attempt to focus
the blame of the rise in methane on
African vegetation. Keep your eye
on this hand over here...
"Sand is the fracking industry’s
favored proppant, with high-purity
quartz—known as “frac sand”—prized
the most for its round shape,
uniform size, and crush resistance.
A single well operation can truck
in thousands of tons of frac sand.
The United States is the single
largest producer of frac sand in
the world, with almost 70 percent
of 2014 domestic production coming
from the Great Lakes Region,
particularly from Wisconsin and
Minnesota, which both saw a
doubling of sand mines between 2005
and 2015."
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Date: August 18, 2023 at 20:39:20
From: Mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Interesting... WtFrac |
URL: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/19/texas-pipeline-heat-natural-gas-emissions-pollution-permian-basin/ |
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"gIt is sadly ironic that the
fossil fuel industry is seeing its
equipment threatened by a situation
it helped create,h Adrian Shelley,
Texas director of Public Citizen,
said in the report.
The heat-related releases were
equivalent to the greenhouse gas
emissions of more than 5,000 cars
in one year. But they are a tiny
fraction of the approximately 30
million tons of annual U.S. methane
emissions estimated in recent
years. Oil and gas systems are the
largest single source of methane
emissions, according to the EPA."
Thought The Boppers might find this
curious, as well as the new
projections in the first post
above. Anyway... back to silence.
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Date: August 18, 2023 at 22:21:17
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Interesting... WtFrac |
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thanks for this..nice to see you...
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