© University of StockholmMethane mega flare event on the Laptev Sea slope of the Arctic Ocean, at a depth of about 62 meters.
An international team of scientists aboard the icebreaker Oden - currently north of eastern Siberia, in the Arctic Ocean - is working primarily to measure methane emissions from the Arctic seafloor. On July 22, 2014, only a week into their voyage, the team reported "elevated methane levels, about 10 times higher than background seawater." They say the culprit in this release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, may be a tongue of relatively warm water from the Atlantic Ocean, the last remnants of the Gulf Stream, mixing into the Arctic Ocean. A press release from University of Stockholm described the discovery as:
... vast methane plumes escaping from the seafloor of the Laptev continental slope. These early glimpses of what may be in store for a warming Arctic Ocean could help scientists project the future releases of the strong greenhouse gas methane from the Arctic Ocean.The scientists refer to the plumes as methane mega flares.
Comment: Scientists have been recording methane plumes in the Arctic ocean for some time and have been using this to push the 'global warming' hysteria, saying that any day now a tipping point will be reached. However, Arctic ice has been rebounding lately in spite of the methane releases.
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