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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•7 months agommmnope. Heard of the clathrate bomb? There is a fuckton of methane locked in permafrost soils. Once they start to melt, you get a chain reaction.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoMethane is very potent, and will cause issues for sure. You’re absolutely right about that. But it also has a much shorter half life than carbon does, so it doesn’t have the same kind of long term effects as carbon does.
minus-square@ApollolinkEnglish1•7 months agoIt has a much shorter half life but what does it degrade into?
mmmnope. Heard of the clathrate bomb?
There is a fuckton of methane locked in permafrost soils.
Once they start to melt, you get a chain reaction.
Methane is very potent, and will cause issues for sure. You’re absolutely right about that. But it also has a much shorter half life than carbon does, so it doesn’t have the same kind of long term effects as carbon does.
It has a much shorter half life but what does it degrade into?