as the permafrost melts, it releases decades and centuries worth of decomposed material that comes out as methane, a greenhouse gas more than 20x worse than co2.
this is happening right now.
i have stepped back from my position to more of an on the fence position about the effects and consequences of the climate change man is inflicting upon himself, but i would still like to know why the permafrost is melting faster and faster. why the ice caps recede more and more and fill in less. why the plankton levels that support the rest of the food chain keep dropping. why th birds migrate later and later each year. and about 20,000+ or so more phenomena...
I just did not understand what it had to do with Jesse the body...by your explanation of the methane, I think you know the answers...the planet is warming and biomes are shifting north...the increase in atmospheric CO2 is acidifying the oceans and dissolving calcareous exoskeletons of planktonic diatoms.
Although the Al Gore faction of the climate change issue undoubtedly has money motivating the hubbub, and likely includes exaggerations and possibly even cited poorly developed experimental data...and the reason for the planet warming may be natural and may be Anthropomorphic...or maybe a bit complicated.
What I believe is happening with the new "Global Warming (always a misnomer) is a Hoax" is an orchestrated disinformation campaign. I believe the leaked emails are as much bullshit as Yemeni printer bombs and bagless, coatless underwear bombers flying to Detroit.
Much like the creationist crowd, physicists are quoted...half of physics is untestable speculation...freaking voodoo. The planet is undisputably in a warming period. The cause of which is debatable (i suppose) But to pretend that the continued Industrial revolution and Massive deforestation is not a factor in the equation is absolutely absurd.