Global Warming Time Bomb
Alaska Ice Burns Methane
Methane Hydrate is the Effect of Global Warming. It is a Global Warming Time Bomb. The above picture is a real fact. There are tons of Methane Hydrate trapped under the kilometers thick ice in Alaska. 1 cubic meter of Methane Nitrate by volume is equal to 164 cubic meters of Methane. Methane Hydrate allows the Methane molecules to be packed more closely than in your cooking gas cylinder.
Methane Hydrate in Alaskan Ice. Scientists have found bubbles of Methane Hydrate trapped under the ice. When they make a hole in the ice where these bubbles are, methane just gushes out and when you put a naked flame it catches fire. Watch Video of Alaska Ice Burning Methane
How Did Methane Come Inside Alaska Ice? The answer is simple. There is millions of tons of vegetation lying in the bed of the frozen ice. Now that the ice sheet thickness is reducing, the sun light has started reaching the bottom and bacteria has started getting activated. As they eat up the vegetation and it rots, they release methane which gets trapped under the ice.
Why is Methane Hydrate called a Global Warming Time Bomb? Methane is a green house gas that has the capability to trap the heat on the earths atmosphere leading to global warming. The higher the methane that is released the more the global warming and the more the ice sheet melts and the more the sunlight that will reach the bottom and the more the bacterial will rot the vegetation and the more the methane that gets released. Some day the ice will explode as the methane concentration increases and the bacteria will get full sunlight and the entire atmosphere will be filled with methane heating up the earth and melting all the ice in Antartica which means a total sea level rise of over 260 feet from what is today. Thus the Alaska Ice Methane hydrate is called a Global Warming Time Bomb.
How do we Stop the Methane Global Warming Time Bomb from Exploding? Do your part in stopping the global warming from happening. Plant more trees, use recycled paper, stop burning gas in your car by car pooling etc etc you already know all that. Let us hope some day somebody will find a way of harnessing this methane hydrate to be put to use in our vehicles and kitchens. Japan is already trying to harness this methane hydrate they have found off shore. Once they succeed, we will be able to turn this global warming time bomb off.
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