Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

serg_chernata wrote: post #4

deanclatworthy wrote: post #2

If you find this interesting, VICE did a 15min segment on their show recently about this very issue.

Thanks for the mention, love Vice. Would you mind providing a link?

It was shown on HBO. Season 5 episode 3

Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 6:29 PM UTC

LyndsySimon wrote: post #3

Well... I guess let's hope the "Clathrate gun hypothesis" is incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

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Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

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Post by fjabre » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 6:36 PM UTC

LyndsySimon wrote: post #3

Well... I guess let's hope the "Clathrate gun hypothesis" is incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

If we can't figure out an engineering solution to this problem then it's game over. It always amazes me how much people and governments focus on prevention when it comes to climate change, knowing full well it's far too late to change anything by reducing carbon emissions. If we can't sequester these 'surplus' gases from the atmosphere then I guess you could say we don't have a chance in hell, pun intended, of surviving as a species if runaway warming becomes a reality.

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Post by cjensen » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 6:37 PM UTC

A lot of the photos in the article sure looked like pingos[1], which are common in the Arctic and subarctic, rather than something exotic. Horses before Zebras and all that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo

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Post by CoffeeDregs » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 6:38 PM UTC

Unfortunately, few of the photos have anything to indicate scale and those few seem to range from 100m (small trucks on the far side) to 2-3m (the guy stepping on one). Still, those are incredible photos...

Re: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

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Post by Daishiman » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 6:44 PM UTC

Well this is pretty much the beggining of the end then.