Re:Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' ...
by tonmoy on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:35AM
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Ok, so release of 50 gigatons of CH4 means 10x increase in atmospheric CH4, then we are looking at around 50% contribution to greenhouse effect from CH4 after that I guess.
Re:Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' ...
by marcosdumay on Friday March 24, 2017 @11:02AM
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That's basically double of what CO2 contributes today, what will also increase the amount of water in the atmosphere.
But CH4 is short lived, so the most important question is how fast it will be emitted. (And the second may be: could we make it even shorter lived?)
|Water vapor and clouds |36–72% |
|Carbon dioxide | 9–26% |
|Methane | 4–9% |
|Ozone | 3–7% |