Methane bubbles in Lake Baikal The lake is a vast storehouse of methane, a greenhouse gas that, if released, could potentially increase amount of infrared light absorbed by Earth’s atmosphere, and so increase the average temperature of entire planet overlookhorizon.com/methane-bubb...
Heat and frozen methane -- bad combo
The gas, liquid, solid array of methane capture, is inverting at an alarming rate. This is perhaps the most underrated perils our species faces.
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And here the pressure centers and wind speeds at 15km high during 1 and 8 of August to show how it looked like in reality
äh 1.5km
I have a nice peak for you - the NAO made ping in August 2024 - lead to a anomalous northward warm water transport off the coast of Norway - positive NAO events - pressure difference of the Iceland low and Azores high - enhance the northward warm water transport of the North Atlantic current...
Actually I thought its too deep for methane emissions this one - ok... have too read it...
What is the source of the methane? Is it organic, geological, or the melting of methane hydrate?
And the methane hydrate is from geologic methane sources: "The gas in the sediments and gas hydrates is composed of 99% thermogenic methane. " link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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This is alarming!
I had been wrong - actually its really methane hydrates fragments rising to the surface - strange, never heard that... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This sounds very much like a potentially worrying temperature increase ->hydrate methane release ->temperature increase feedback loop.
Likely one of the former two - methane hydrates should not be possible - in the Arctic shelf regions its a left over from sea level rise and former glaciers residing in this area from the last ice age in this area - pressure. Have no idea from this lake - actually surprising Algal blooms, sediments?
See the replies to the same post by @umsonst.bsky.social - there are several studies