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Pacific Ocean’s Middle Waters Are Hot And Leaking Methane

December 10, 2014 By Sebastian Mc’Mannen Leave a Comment

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Pacific Ocean’s middle waters are hot and leaking methane, a new research investigating Washington’s shores reveals. Scientists discovered that coastal water around Washington is gradually warming at a 500 meters depth, more exactly at around a third of a mile down.  What is worrisome is that the water level where methane shifts into gas from its solid form.

Solomon and his team initially found out about methane leaks fishermen  who took photographs of bubbles  water.  On a sail trip this summer the researchers collected elementary samples from the ocean’s  bottom at exactly the location where the fishermen took the photos of the ‘sparkling’ water.  The lab test revealed that along with the sediments there were also crystallized methane deposits

The investigations allege that there is a probability the sea warming could result in the discharge of greenhouse gas. Methane is several times more efficient at warming the planet as compared to carbon dioxide.

Evan Solomon, co-author of the research scheduled to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, estimates that each year there are discharges of methane on the Washington coast identical in volume with the Deepwater Horizon oil slick.  Evan Solomon is an UW associate oceanography professor.

Prior to this research, scientists believed that Earth-wide temperature boosts will lead to methane breaks from gas hydrates all around the world but the main focus was on the methane supplies found in the Arctic.  But it seems like the Pacific might be troublesome as well.

Researchers behind this new study have calculated that 4 million metric tons of methane exited in the region of coastal Washington from 1970 to 2013.

The quantity is equal to the Deepwater Horizon natural gas release in 2010 close to the shores of Louisiana. Likewise this is 500 times the rate at which methane is typically discharged from the ocean’s bottom. Solomon said this methane hydrates can be influenced by variation in temperatures. On the off chance that temperatures are altered, these can be discharged.

Methane is the basic element of natural gas. It can mix with water forming a crystal named methane hydrate at frosty temperatures and high sea pressure.

Scientists believe that hot water originates in the Sea of Okhotsk, located between Japan and Russia , where the thickness of surface water increments and afterward it arrives in eastern areas through the Pacific. After it passes through the Pacific it reaches the Washington shores, process that takes about ten or twenty years. Another study also discovered comparable patterns of methane leaks  close to the coast of Alaska in Atlantic.

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Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Warmer Pacific Ocean releasing Methane from Seafloor Deposits: Study, Warming Ocean May Be Triggering Mega Methane Leaks Off Northwest Coast, Warming pacific ocean could release tons of fart gas, Warming Pacific Ocean May Release Millions of Tons of Methane, Water at Intermediate Depths of Pacific Ocean can melt Carbon Deposits

About Sebastian Mc’Mannen

Sebastian is an award-winning reporter and multimedia journalist. Sebastian’s first and foremost love was history, which led him to graduate from Penn State University with a bachelor’s in history. It was only later during his life that the love for journalism arose in him.

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