This is beautiful. But, should I be scared? Is this normal? Anything that seems to good to be true has me worried these days. Just the trauma of daily life, I suppose.
I know, it's like no-one is asking why it's happening, where is it coming from, where does it go when the ice thaws, and what does it do when it does?
...but it's such a pretty positive reinforcing feedback loop so aww
Possibly even more concerning is the loss of albedo (light surfaces that reflect sunlight back into space) as snow pack & sea ice diminish. That will increase global warming for as far as we can imagine.
Not really. This is a natural process that happens regardless of anthropogenic climate change. It just happens even more as temperatures climb. Methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas, but it only survives for 30 to 40 years in the atmosphere. CO2 lasts for centuries.
Alas—As a toilet, I am not the authority on such things.
Honestly, no one has even scrubbed me since the FBI removed all those stolen docs from this Mar-a-Lago guest bathroom so I’m not up on what the kids say these days but I heard skeet when I got here and stuck w/ it b/c posts are for Facebook
mmm, yes. I don't know if there's any exact border, but I can't imagine defining the North Saskatchewan River as being in "Southern Alberta". Do people in Rocky Mountain House describe the area as "Southern Alberta"?
What I don’t understand is how water can freeze fast enough to trap a gas that’s bubbling up to the surface- like how!? Was it supercooled and just suddenly crystallized?
My random uneducated guess, the water's surface freezes first, and there are spots where the bubbles are escaping that remains liquid. But it keeps freezing, lower and lower, except around the column of perturbed water. Width varies with temp/speed making neat disks.
This is what ends us. There's four times the amount of greenhouse gasses locked up in frozen underwater permafrost, when it melts, bacteria will start producing methane by the million-ton load, very quickly released, this will set the temp. at five degrees above average on its own, so add that ours.
I knew permafrost was the main issue, but then I learned about underwater permafrost also, and then there's the increased absorption of heat from sunlight upon the black oceans compared to reflective white snow, when the water once froze/a spiral of decline and increased heat, biodiversity plumets.
Why I was suggesting what we had nukes for, to prevent a Putin doing what he's doing to Ukrainians, because we don't have much longer left anyway, so, let's keep them civil and non-child rapists and murderers, nuke Moscow if you don't retreat immediately out Ukraine. How Russia feels without Moscow?
Methane comes up from lakeground builds a bubble under the ice. Water freezes from the surface down and often more at night. So it freezes, bubbles stay of course icefree. At night it freezes faster which creates those bubble effects.
I'm curious how you know that those bubbles are methane. I see bubbles in our frozen lake all the time and simply assumed they were trapped air bubble.
yes. 2025... but there is a lot less bot here than the other social network.
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The video is more than likely of Abraham Lake in Alberta, Canada. As organic matter like dead trees, leaves, etc decompose in the bottom of the lake, the decomposition releases methane gas bubbles that rise to the surface. As temperatures drop, the bubbles slow and become trapped under the surface
Let's talk about that little cloudburst that you overlook in the top left corner. That's methane escaping from the bottom of whatever that is right there and every year it's going to get worse and worse so imagine the amount of methane that will release into the planet's atmosphere
As the Earth heats up, these methane bubbles get released from their icy prison and go out into the atmosphere.. As methane is an excellent greenhouse gas (CO2 eat your heart out), it helps heat the Earth a little bit more. Oh dear, oh dear.. I think I prefer seeing methane like this.. 🫧
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...but it's such a pretty positive reinforcing feedback loop so aww
Well actually frozen!
I needed this. So calm and beautiful! Thank you for posting!!
Very, very cool!!!
They look like vertical Golgi Bodies.
Honestly, no one has even scrubbed me since the FBI removed all those stolen docs from this Mar-a-Lago guest bathroom so I’m not up on what the kids say these days but I heard skeet when I got here and stuck w/ it b/c posts are for Facebook
So cool!~
Bubbles are frozen into the ice in layers every winter, and released in the spring.
Any lakes & swamps with decaying plants at the bottom release methane bubbles, but most don't get caught in the ice.
Nature is neat.
Thanks for sharing!
don't light a match
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