Methane Release And The Geoengineering “Cure” That Is Fueling The Fire

Methane Release And The Geoengineering “Cure” That Is Fueling The Fire

April 29, 2013



The baby must be taken from the bathwater in the recent article
posted below. The data in this article relating to the methane release
and the danger it poses is in my view accurate enough.The details
outlined in this same article that reference the jet stream alterations,
with no mention whatsoever of the HAARP ionosphere heaters around the
globe, is pure spin. Then there is the call for immediate geoengineering
to be done as if it has not already been going on for decades, this is
the final blatant lie.

I believe all available data indicates our collective situation is
considerably worse than even this article states. Geoengineering is not a
“cure” but rather a curse beyond measure that appears to be the single
largest factor fueling the fire that is “mass methane expulsion”.

As the multiple HAARP facilities around the globe continue to shred
our atmosphere with their constant use, unprecedented heat waves are
being created in some regions in the destructive attempt to create
completely unnatural cooling in other locations. The entire climate
system is being turned on its head and the damage is stacking up by the
day.

The article below should be examined, the truth carefully sifted from
the lies and omissions. Our collective situation is dire indeed, the
sooner we can bring geoengineering to light and to a halt, the better
chance we will have. Please examine how you can help to shine the light
on global geoengineering.



Dane Wigington

geoengineeringwatch.org


Methane Outbreak Alert!

by Robert Hunziker / April 27th, 2013

A cadre of the world’s top climate scientists have seen enough
evidence of prospective runaway climate change that they are now
sounding the alarm, putting the world on notice that an extinction event
may be in the cards. The principal actor in this macabre tragedy:
Methane.

The following is a quote from the Arctic Methane Emergency Group
(“AMEG”), which is the organization created by these high level climate
scientists.

An Assessment by AMEG:

Could the World be in Imminent Danger and Nobody is Telling?

Uniquely and fearlessly AMEG has studied key non-linear trends in the
Earth-human System and reached the stunning conclusion that the planet
stands at the edge of abrupt and catastrophic climate change as a result
of an unprecedented rate of change in the Arctic.

Methane (CH₄) is over twenty times more powerful, over a 100-year period, per molecule, than is carbon dioxide (CO₂).
Or, put another way, methane is more effectual than carbon dioxide at
absorbing infrared radiation emitted from the earth’s surface and
preventing it from escaping into space. Methane, during its first few
years upon entering the atmosphere, is 100 times as powerful as an equal
weight of CO₂.

As it happens, it appears excessive levels of methane are just now
starting to seriously impact the Earth’s atmosphere… in a big way!

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, as of
February 2013, methane levels in the atmosphere are measured at 1,874
ppb (parts per billion.) This level, in an historical context, is more
than twice as high as any time since 400,000 years before the industrial
revolution. In the past, methane has ranged between 300-400 ppb during
glacial periods and 600-700 ppb during warm interglacial periods.

Newly Identified Sources of Methane Emissions in Deep Arctic Seas

In 2012, expeditionary teams in the Arctic were shocked, and
dismayed, to find methane bubbling up from deep ocean sites. “Previous
observations have pointed to large methane plumes being released from
the seabed in the relatively shallow sea off the northern coast of
Siberia, but the latest findings were made far away from land in the
deep, open ocean where the surface is usually capped by ice.”¹

Physicist Eric Kort (Ph.D., Applied Physics, Harvard University) of
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Pasadena, California was surprised to
see methane levels rise so convincingly each time their research
aircraft flew over cracks in the sea ice. These methane measurements
come from Hiaper Pole-to-Pole Observations, which uses aircraft loaded
with scientific instruments flying long distances at varying altitudes.
The study, covering numerous flights into the Arctic at different times
of the year, was published in Nature Geoscience. The study covered an area about 950 miles north of the coast of Alaska and 350 miles south of the North Pole.

Moreover, as if discovering methane emissions from the deep seas of
the Arctic isn’t already of major concern, a recent study discovered
immense amounts of methane locked under Antarctic ice: “They… calculated
that the potential amount of methane hydrate and free methane gas
beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet could be up to 4 billion metric tons, a
similar order of magnitude to some estimates made for Arctic permafrost.
The predicted shallow depth of these potential reserves also makes them
more susceptible to climate forcing than other methane hydrate reserves
on Earth.”²

The Arctic is in Meltdown: At the same time, Methane Gushes into the Atmosphere

According to the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG),
the “Arctic is in meltdown.” As such, AMEG has declared: “An extremely
high international security risk of acute climate disruption followed by
runaway global warming.”

Likewise, Russian scientists have spotted methane plumes/bubbles that
are more than a kilometer in diameter coming to surface along the East
Siberian Arctic Shelf, which is the largest continental shelf in the
world. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the sea over the shelf is shallow
water, less than 50 metres deep, and consequently more immediately
exposed to warming trends.

“The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head
of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the
East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.”³

“We carried out checks at about 115 stationary points and discovered
methane fields of a fantastic scale – I think on a scale not seen
before. Some of the plumes were a kilometer or more wide and the
emissions went directly into the atmosphere – the concentration was a
hundred times higher than normal,” says Dr. Igor Semiletov of the
International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks, who led the 8th joint US-Russia cruise of the East Siberian
Arctic seas.³

Regarding the amounts of methane released into the atmosphere,
according to Dr. Natalia Shakhova of the International Arctic Research
Centre: “The concentration of atmospheric methane increased unto three
times in the past two centuries… That’s a huge increase, between two and
three times, and this has never happened in the history of the planet.”³

The cause of this emerging outbreak of methane, as explained by AMEG,
is a horrendous cycle that started 20-30 years ago when Atlantic and
Pacific Ocean currents, warmed by greenhouse gases, flowed into the
Arctic Ocean. This extra heat into the Arctic Ocean causes declines in
the sea ice, and it increases temperatures. As it happens, the extra
heat travels into shallow seas along the continental shelf and, over
time, the warming also spreads to the deep seabed, destabilizing methane
hydrates and free gas trapped over millennia in the permafrost cap. As
follows, methane that has been trapped for millions upon millions of
years is released into the atmosphere.

The quantities of methane in the continental shelf are so huge and
overwhelming that only 1% or 2% of the methane released could lead to an
unstoppable chain reaction of runaway overheating of the planet. This
is why some of the world’s most renowned climate scientists formed AMEG,
because they were prompted by indisputable signals of the beginning
stages of massive releases of methane, thus, threatening an extinction
event on planet Earth.

Historical Methane Mass Extinction Event: “The Great Dying”

Approximately two hundred million years ago methane was involved in a
mass extinction event, referred to as “The Great Dying.” The outcome
was the extinction of over half of all life forms. Some studies suggests
a volcanic eruption started the warming cycle, triggering positive
feedback by causing underwater permafrost to melt and release methane
gas to the atmosphere (similar to today, except humans are the trigger
rather than a volcano) which further amplified warming even more,
releasing more methane, and the feedback grew, and grew, until
conditions became so inhospitable that mass extinction occurred.⁴

Arctic Methane Emergency Group

According to an Arctic Methane Emergency Group Press Release d/d
November 11, 2012: “Abrupt climate change is upon us… Food prices will
go through the roof. The government’s climate change policy is in
tatters. The government should have acted years ago. Now it may be too
late… There has been an elephant in the room, and it has been totally
ignored. It’s all about Arctic sea ice….”

AMEG recently completed a new film: Arctic Methane – Why the Sea Ice Matters.⁵ The following excerpts are taken from this film:

Peter Wadhams, President of the International Association on Sea Ice
and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group/Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, says: “It
is quite urgent that we recognize what is going on… the ice has been
getting thinner over the last 40 years since I have been measuring it,
and it has lost about one-half of its thickness… five years ago the
shrinkage started to accelerate. Now, melting in summer is greater than
freezing in winter.”

James Hansen, adjunct professor, Department of Earth and
Environmental Sciences, Columbia University and former Head of the NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Studies claims the melting ice could lead to
the point where ocean floor warming triggers massive release of methane
hydrate, i.e., methane molecules trapped in ice crystals, which would
become a “tipping point.” As well, methane is already being released
from thawing tundra on land, and it is bubbling up in the Arctic Ocean,
which is clear evidence of the warming of the Arctic Ocean waters. Thus
and so, there is evidence that the warming ocean floor is already
beginning to release massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere,
with dire consequences to follow.

According to David Wasdell, International Coordinator, Meridian
Programme: “A runaway climate change is now clear and beginning to be
quantified for the first time… the greatest threat we face as a planet…
The rate of change we’re generating in the current situation is between
200-300 times faster than that experience of any extinction event apart
from the asteroidal impact. If you look at the general background
change, for instance, it takes about 10,000 years to change the
concentration of carbon dioxide by 100 ppm — we’re doing it in 30 years
at this year’s rate… so, the rate of change in the climate is phenomenal
compared to previous extinction events.”

Wasdell continues, “We’re already in a mass extinction event. We’re
losing species and losing populations, partly by climate change and
partly by habitat change, partly by overexploitation of habitat like
fisheries… We’ve lost about 40% of the phytoplankton in the oceans which
is the basis of the food chain.”

Imagine 40% of land crops disappearing, the world would be in a state
of chaos involving hordes of desperate people invading other countries
for their food and water. In contrast, what can marine life do upon
losing 40% of its primary food source as a result of human-induced
climate change?

Jet Stream Impact Threatens World Food Supply

The warming Arctic impacts the entire Northern Hemisphere in a
negative fashion, threatening humankind’s food supply. As the Arctic
warms, the jet streams change, and the jet streams drive weather
systems, most prominently in the Northern Hemisphere. As a result of the
warming Arctic, the jet streams become wavier and slower, causing
freakish weather all across the Northern Hemisphere.

As an example: A couple of years ago the jet streams were locked and
the trough of the wave was over Pakistan; the crest was over Russia. The
jet stream did not move for 35 days. The trough was low pressure with
lots of rain, and as a result, Pakistan flooded, beyond one month. At
the time, worldwide television networks sent broadcasts of groups of
Pakistanis huddled together on small landmasses surrounded by water.
Simultaneously, Moscow was under a high-pressure ridge, experiencing a
powerful 35-day heat wave. An estimated 50,000 Russians, over and above
the normal mortality rate, died (not mentioned on TV), and the country
lost 40% of its wheat crop. Russia halted wheat exports.

In 2012 the United States’ drought was the worst since 1950. Syria,
part of the Fertile Crescent breadbasket of the Middle East, had a
6-year drought only recently, and India has had two droughts the past
four years. And, the list does not end here….

Radical Climate Change in Arctic

According to AMEG, here’s how climate change in the Arctic has
changed weather patterns: Over the past three decades, snow cover has
been reduced by 17-18% per decade and sea ice is declining fast because
of human-induced global warming. Consequently, the albedo effect is
collapsing in the Arctic. Albedo is the reflection of Sun’s radiation
off the white ice and white snow surfaces. Unfortunately, when the
albedo effect collapses, the dark sea and dark land mass absorb most of
the Sun’s radiation. A collapsing albedo effect is ominously apocalyptic
for the Arctic, and for the world. And, disturbingly, Arctic albedo is
already in the collapsing stage. This will inevitably lead to ever more
methane emissions and a vicious cycle of feedbacks leading to an
extinction event, probably unstoppable.

According to physicist Paul Beckwith, University of Ottawa, since
2007, there has been a sharp increase in methane release, and he says
methane is the key now to a ‘tipping point’ in the climate. He believes
it is entirely possible that before 2020 the Arctic will be clear of sea
ice with open waters three months of the year, as a minimum, and
without sea ice, and with the loss of the reflective albedo, all the
feedbacks will kick into gear. This will, in turn, trigger runaway
warming of the planet and fractured weather patterns like
extra-prolonged droughts or sudden, torrential rains as the entire world
begins to sizzle!

Solution?

Beckwith believes geo-engineering is the only salvation for the
Arctic. This involves injecting sulfur dioxide into the Arctic
atmosphere, which acts like a large erupting volcano, blocking out
sunlight, allowing the Arctic to cool. Be that as it may, there are
serious scientists and legal scholars, e.g., experts at both Harvard and
UCLA, who question the value of geo-engineering without first taking
the time to establishing very tight international protocols. On the
other hand, and controversially, some scientists fear potential
consequences of a ‘Frankenstein atmosphere’ once humans begin tampering
with nature.

The problem: There are no good solutions absent question marks.

In that respect, this begs the question of why the governments of the
world have not been, as rapidly as humanly possible, promoting
renewables as a replacement for fossil fuels. Renewable energy
technology is proven, and for the uninitiated, renewables have been
around for decades. And, renewables are climate friendly.

At the end of the day, runaway climate change may be the
result of the greatest failure of political leadership in recorded
history… assuming recordkeeping is still maintained within the context
of an extinction event.

All of which goes to prove, humans and asteroids are on the same level.


Source:-
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/methane-release-and-the-geoengineering-cure-that-is-fueling-the-fire/