Re: [geo] Re: UK Independent: Russian team shocked at scale of methane plumes

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Hayes
Hi Folks, If you go back to the April and look at the weather in the Siberian region, you will see that a large warm air mass sat above Siberia for some time. It appeared to me that this early warming of the land would generate early warm river waters infusing into the down current hydrate

[geo] Is it time yet to seriously evaluate post-emissions mitigation?

2011-12-17 Thread Rau, Greg
NYTimes editorial December 16, 2011 Beyond Durban Startling new evidence that global carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster than ever did little to increase the urgency of the climate talks in Durban, South Africa, which concluded earlier this week. Once again, the world’s negotiators

Re: [geo] Re: UK Independent: Russian team shocked at scale of methane plumes

2011-12-17 Thread John Nissen
Hi Michael, I am chair of the recently formed Arctic Methane Emergency Group and we launched our report in the form of a brochure at the AGU last week [1], as reported in the Independent [2] and New Scientist [3]. The Russians researching the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) are well aware of