David K.

Hey D: Did you see where they're recording methane "spouts" in the ....hmmmmmmm Syberian Sea? (damn, the memory thing fails when I get excited...) Was it the Bering Sea? Google methane spouts, and you end up with the data. Just found it today. Blessings, keep up the good fight. YOU save the planet, and I'll educate people on politicians, okay?
Wilka

Thank you for your reading, and comments on my post today. Your input is always welcomed. I love seeing your natural-artistic icon pop up on any of my posts.
Blessed, blessed be....
Wilka

David,

I read your well-considered response and offered a, 'rejoinder'.

Thanks.

Brett

David,

Sent you a Gather email.

Best,

Brett

Thank you for the friend request!! Your articles are informative and eye-opening.

Hi friend, how's you?

A massive oil spill announced this week off the coast of western Sweden feels like an ominous harbinger for America’s Arctic Ocean.


http://earthjustice.org/blog/2011-september/swedish-oil-spill-a-preview-of-the-alaskan-arctic

Meltwater flowing through ice sheets can carry warmth to the interior via crevasses, fractures, and large drains called moulins. A new modeling study shows that such warming can greatly accelerate the thermal response of an ice sheet to climate change: An ice sheet can respond on the order of decades, rather than the centuries projected by conventional thermal models. Ice flows more readily as it warms, so a warming climate can increase ice flows much faster than previously thought.

http://cires.colorado.edu/news/press/2010/fastResponse.html

A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.

Led by the University of Colorado at Boulder, the international study indicated that while the mean annual temperature on Ellesmere Island in the High Arctic during the Pliocene Epoch 2.6 to 5.3 million years ago was about 34 degrees Fahrenheit, or 19 degrees Celsius, warmer than today, CO2 levels were only slightly higher than present. The vast majority of climate scientists agree Earth is warming due to increased concentrations of heat-trapping atmospheric gases generated primarily by human activities like fossil fuel burning and deforestation.

http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/7f24670acf439fcb5964c45cd85537a5.html

Newly Discovered Icelandic Current Could Change Climate Picture
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=121415&org=NSF&from=news