Jonger

That methane thats under the ice was probably the remains of plant/organic material that was left behind when there were actual plants growing in those spots.

"Earlier we found torch-like structures like this but they were only tens of metres in diameter."

"This is the first time that we've found continuous, powerful and impressive seeping structures, more than 1,000 metres in diameter."

"Over a relatively small area we found more than 100, but over a wider area there should be thousands of them."

"Scientists estimate that there are hundreds of millions of tonnes of methane gas locked away beneath the Arctic permafrost"

"Dr Semiletov's team published a study in 2010 estimating that the methane emissions from this region were about eight million tonnes a year"

"In late summer, the Russian research vessel Academician Lavrentiev conducted an extensive survey of about 10,000 square miles of sea off the East Siberian coast."

"on a scale not seen before. Some plumes were a kilometre or more wide and the emissions went directly into the atmosphere – the concentration was a hundred times higher than normal."

How mutch more data do you need to see that this is not good?

How much methane was released when the last iceage ended and a size of ice several times larger melted then we have today. The ice we have at the poles today is a fraction of the original sheet.

Bug attacks are the next worry. This comes straight from wunderground.com Dr.Masters.

http://classic.wunde...um=2000&tstamp=