It's All About Me, Man: [ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: [UltraZine] Shocked, I tell you shocked!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: [UltraZine] Shocked, I tell you shocked!

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From: MattLove1 <mattlove1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:26 PM
Subject: [UltraZine] Shocked, I tell you shocked!
To: UltraZine@yahoogroups.com

You good folks heard about this from me (1/29/2004)

--- In UltraZine@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Love" <mattlove1@...> wrote:
>
> But when the oceans rise a few degrees in temperature, and those massive
> deposits of frozen methane start to bubble to the surface....

So if I knew this then, why would people be surprised for it to start happening now?

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/shock-as-retreat-of-arctic-sea-ice-releases-deadly-greenhouse-gas-6276134.html

Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

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.

In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Igor Semiletov, of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that he has never before witnessed the scale and force of the methane being released from beneath the Arctic seabed.

I hope I was wrong when I said this next:

> ...[that] starts
> a feedback loop that will cause the earth's average temperature to shoot up
> several degrees in just a few decades - well, we'll be joining the
> dinosaurs on the slag heap of history...

However, it looks pretty bleak. Despite our incredible forebrains, as a species we show no more intelligence than bacteria, consuming everything until nothing is left and we expire in our own waste.

I stopped talking politics on this list because I got tired of being treated like a freak for being informed, being called a conspiracy theorist because when they were passing out the Kool-Aid I said "no thank you."

I'm still not going to talk politics on this list. Just thought you all might appreciate this timely update, and reminder to eat, drink and be merry, I'm sure going to!