Global Warming Time Bomb - Methane Hydrate

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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Cow Farts causing Global Warming!?

Scientists and farmers around the world are debating a very serious subject at the moment. You may not know it, but cows are actually one of the rudest animals around. In fact, they burp and fart so often and in such huge figures that the methane they release may be an affecting part of global warming. Yes, they are really talking about farting and burping cows.
Why are scientists talking about this? Good question, let's start with the science behind passing gas. Farts and burps are essentially pockets of gas that get released from human and animal bodies. Some of it is created inside our bodies as we digest food and some is ingested, when we eat or talk. This mixture is not useful to us, so our bodies propel it out as best they can, “passing gas or flatulence.”
One of the gases found in farts and burps is methane. Certain amounts of methane in the atmosphere are normal. Right along with other greenhouse gases, methane collects in the sky and traps warm air around our planet. The problem starts when the layer of greenhouse gases is too thick and too much heat is shut in. This effect is called global warming my friends!
A report published in the state of California a while back declared that dairy cows in the area were producing almost 20 lbs of gas every year. That is a ridiculously large amount of gas. If that number is correct, it could mean that cow farts are causing more greenhouse gases than pollution from cars, since California has millions of cows.
Scientists around our globe have known for a long time that animal gases could be trouble. What they cannot agree on is how big of a problem it can actually be. Even if scientists manage to measure the size of the farts or burps, they then have to work out how much methane they contain. It is very hard to measure just how much methane an animal is burping and farting out.
A Swedish university has taken this matter very seriously and has been awarded close to $600,000 in support to research this occurrence. Jan Bertilsson of the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences stated that 20 cows will be involved in the study.
By attaching special collars around the cow’s necks, they hope to calculate the amount of methane released with each burp depending on the kind of food they consume. Mind you this is only a study on burps not farts.
I am not a scientist or anything but it looks like if we want to make a real effort at slowing down our climate change, we simply can’t only go after the cows. It just doesn’t seem to me to be the only source of the problem. What does the rest of the planet think?