Last updated on July 5, 2017
The third planet from the sun has gas. I’m not referring to atmospheric gases or natural gas that is fracked out of bedrock. The Earth’s gas is deep within its bowels, the consequence of a slow-moving digestion over millions of years that converts organic material to methane. Giant pockets of methane gas lie beneath the oceans and the Arctic ice shelf. It has quietly leaked from the ocean floor for eons and small amounts of gas have escaped the Arctic shelf. Recently, the gas leakage in the Arctic has been increasing and the steady rise in global temperatures leading to Arctic melting may release a massive burst of methane in a catastrophic event. It has happened before.
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