2007-09-20

Methane Fueled Ancient Global Warming

University of Bristol
Lead author: Richard Pancost
Where published: Nature

Huge belches of methane from bogs in what is now Britain likely contributed to global warming some 55 million years ago ... The finding adds weight to the idea that methane being released from wetlands today may accelerate modern global warming.
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Methane already appears to be seeping out of once frozen bogs in Siberia.

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