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Fire in ice

Today’s a short post inspired by a newspaper article about methane gas trapped in ice in Alaska and Siberia. It is interesting to note that methane gas has 20 times the heat-trapping effect of carbon dioxide. Meaning, 1 ton of methane in the air will trap as much heat as 20 tons of carbon dioxide in the air. If the atmosphere requires 20 million tons of carbon dioxide to raise the world’s temperature by 1 degree, it will only take a million tons. How’s that for a doomsday prediction?

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