what's under your feet??

this is just a bit scary...glad it's mostly coal around here..and marcellus drillling lately
http://geology.com/articles/marcellus-shale.shtml
..but they have to work for it
it's not coming to the surface on it's own



Siberia's Climate Time Bomb: Thawing Permafrost Could Spell Disaster
ARTHUR MAX | 11/21/10 10:35 AM |ap


CHERSKY, Russia — The Russian scientist shuffles across the frozen lake, scuffing aside ankle-deep snow until he finds a cluster of bubbles trapped under the ice. With a cigarette lighter in one hand and a knife in the other, he lances the ice like a blister. Methane whooshes out and bursts into a thin blue flame.
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Gas locked inside Siberia's frozen soil and under its lakes has been seeping out since the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago. But in the past few decades, as the Earth has warmed, the icy ground has begun thawing more rapidly, accelerating the release of methane – a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide – at a perilous rate.

Some scientists believe the thawing of permafrost could become the epicenter of climate change. They say 1.5 trillion tons of carbon, locked inside icebound earth since the age of mammoths, is a climate time bomb waiting to explode if released into the atmosphere.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/21/siberia-climate-change-methane_n_786554.html



tip-toe thur the tulips.....