Sep 7, 2006

Potent warming gas bubbling up faster

In MSN News (sorry no news here)

This October 2003 photo provided by the journal Nature shows methane bubbles trapped in lake ice in Siberia in early autumn. Methane trapped in a special type of permafrost is bubbling up at rate five times faster than originally measured, according to a study in the Thursday, Sept. 6, 2006, issue of the journal Nature. Methane, a gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere, is bubbling up from melting permafrost at a rate five times faster than originally measured, scientists reported Wednesday.