How will the release of Siberian methane affect global warming? Can climate models predict its signature?
Posted on July 18th, 2009 Submitted by anilbharat Categorized as Biodiversity, Earth System Tagged as climate model, CO2, global warming, methane, Siberia 6 Because it’s a complicated process, and we can’t predict how much of the released gas may be re-absorbed by plants and the oceans, how quickly it will be released, or whether the sudden increase in methane will trigger an, as yet, un-predicted event. It is estimated that a Siberian thaw could push 500 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere. The U.N.-sponsored Panel on Climate Change has published its estimate for global warming over the next one hundred years, producing a rise of between 3 and 11 degrees F. The addition of Siberian gas releases could change these predictions to 5 to 15 degrees F. 1 comments on this post. GlennTamblyn August 6th, 2009 at 05:30 These are my comments from another question about Arctic Methane This seems to me to be the single most important area of Climate Change research confronting
