{"id":33839,"date":"2021-08-02T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T02:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33839"},"modified":"2021-08-02T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T02:26:01","slug":"that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/02\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-63\/","title":{"rendered":"That Darn Climate Change Conspiracy, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/08\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-62\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change front<\/a> is this potentially disturbing news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists have long been worried about what many call \u201cthe methane bomb\u201d \u2014 the potentially catastrophic release of methane from thawing wetlands in Siberia\u2019s permafrost.<\/p>\n<p>But now a study by three geologists says that a heat wave in 2020 has revealed a surge in methane emissions \u201cpotentially in much higher amounts\u201d from a different source: thawing rock formations in the Arctic permafrost.<\/p>\n<p>The difference is that thawing wetlands releases \u201cmicrobial\u201d methane from the decay of soil and organic matter, while thawing limestone \u2014 or carbonate rock \u2014 releases hydrocarbons and gas hydrates from reservoirs both below and within the permafrost, making it \u201cmuch more dangerous\u201d than past studies have suggested.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2021\/08\/02\/climate-change-heat-wave-unleashes-methane-from-prehistoric-siberian-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All tentative and contingent &#8211; but methane is more potent than CO<sub>2<\/sub>, as I understand it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the climate change front is this potentially disturbing news: Scientists have long been worried about what many call \u201cthe methane bomb\u201d \u2014 the potentially catastrophic release of methane from thawing wetlands in Siberia\u2019s permafrost. But now a study by three geologists says that a heat wave in 2020 has \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/02\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-63\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33840,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33839\/revisions\/33840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}