Widespread Methane Leakage Oxidizing Into CO2

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Widespread methane leakage … from the sea floor on the northern US Atlantic margin.

“In an area between North Carolina and Massachusetts, they have now found at least 570 seeps at varying depths between 50m and 1,700m. […] The scientists say there could be about 30,000 of these hidden methane vents worldwide.

“The methane is dissolving into the ocean at depths of hundreds of metres and being oxidised to CO2,” said [Prof Adam Skarke from Mississippi State University, who led the study].

http://www.thegwpf.org/underwater-methane-discovery-shows-how-little-we-know-about-climate-system/

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2232.html

“Contemporary upper-slope seepage there may be triggered by ongoing warming of intermediate waters, but authigenic carbonates observed imply that emissions have continued for more than 1,000 years at some seeps.”

Translation: We’d love to blame global warming … but since it has been going on for 1,000 years … we can’t … unless you are dumb.

Solar Power Plant Needs To Burn Natural Gas 5 hours per day to Warm Up The Boilers.

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This is hilarious.

“Each of the 4,000-acre facility’s three units has gas-fired boilers used to warm up the fluid in the turbines in the early morning, to keep that fluid at an optimum temperature through the night, and to boost production during the day when the sun goes behind a cloud.

The project’s managers, BrightSource Energy and NRG Energy, originally estimated that the plant’s main auxiliary boilers would need to run for an hour a day, on average, to allow the plant to capture solar energy efficiently. But after a few months of operation, they’re now saying they need to burn more gas, with the boilers running an average of five hours a day.”

 

Gas fired / solar powered bird incinerators.

 

http://www.thegwpf.org/worlds-largest-solar-power-plant-wants-to-burn-a-lot-more-natural-gas/

MASIE Arctic Aug 24 2014 – 15,000 sq km Increase

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Aug 24 2014  MASIE Update – 15,000 Increase – 6 regions showed an increase – only 3 showed a drop

Data here.  Click for bigger.

MASIE Arctic Ice Extent as of 2014-235

MASIE Central_Arctic Freeze.Melt as of 2014235

MASIE Northern_Hemisphere Freeze.Melt as of 2014235

Region 148 days ago End Last 147 Last 28 Last 14 Last 7 Last 3 Last 1
Central Arctic 3,221,921 3,014,536 -207,386 -190,240 -131,202 -54,345 -14,605 -6,713
Chukchi Sea 966,006 404,852 -561,154 -236,954 -120,162 -70,049 -20,808 -1,270
East Siberian Sea 1,087,137 573,553 -513,584 -417,368 -218,037 -55,118 -14,962 -510
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,688,530 10,242 -1,678,288 -74,504 -36,120 -2,355 86 0
Hudson Bay 1,260,903 49,883 -1,211,020 -151,752 -78,133 -37,837 -9,259 0
Bering Sea 697,324 0 -697,324 -15 0 0 0 0
Baltic Sea 15,337 0 -15,337 0 0 0 0 0
Sea of Okhotsk 853,240 0 -853,240 0 0 0 0 0
Yellow Sea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Canadian Archipelago 853,214 512,024 -341,190 -171,651 -92,818 -15,755 994 125
Laptev Sea 897,845 25,212 -872,632 -315,871 -126,287 -23,173 6,149 2,286
Kara Sea 933,859 169,991 -763,868 -234,657 -54,735 -17,139 12,432 2,647
Beaufort Sea 1,070,445 711,272 -359,173 -120,479 -92,697 -52,538 7,545 2,851
Barents Sea 645,917 137,210 -508,707 57,363 40,597 24,340 27,949 6,024
Greenland Sea 603,416 244,823 -358,593 -111,964 -51,483 -22,020 -3,976 9,954
Northern Hemisphere (Total) 14,805,115 5,854,741 -8,950,374 -1,968,092 -961,078 -325,989 -8,456 15,393
NH (Average Loss per Day) -60,476 -70,289 -68,648 -46,570 -2,819 15,393