Climate Change

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Journal article: Advances in Drama Theory for Managing Global Hazards and Disasters. Part I: Theoretical Foundation

Jason K. Levy1 , Keith W. Hipel2 and N. Howard3

(1) L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
(2) Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G1
(3) Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-the-me...
By Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independant

Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide

The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists.

The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the Arctic region becomes warmer and its ice retreats.

Underground stores of methane are important because scientists believe their sudden release has in the past been responsible for rapid increases in global temperatures, dramatic changes to the climate, and even the mass extinction of species. Scientists aboard a research ship that has sailed the entire length of Russia's northern coast have discovered intense concentrations of methane – sometimes at up to 100 times background levels – over several areas covering thousands of square miles of the Siberian continental shelf.

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British scientists have discovered hundreds more methane "plumes" bubbling up from the Arctic seabed, in an area to the west of the Norwegian island of Svalbard. It is the second time in a week that scientists have reported methane emissions from the Arctic.

Methane is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and the latest findings from two separate teams of scientists suggest it is being released in significant amounts from within the Arctic Circle.

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Climate change experts stage talks at Second Life
Updated Tue. Dec. 4 2007 6:40 PM ET

The Associated PressLONDON -- Climate change experts will stage a series of talks on the website Second Life to coincide with the UN conference on the subject underway in Bali.

Second Nature, Nature Publishing Group's archipelago in Second Life, will host the talks, the group said Tuesday.