Those are not papers but articles by a journalist....and another paper about sensitivity that warns about underestimating...
Yawn.Mason Inman is a science and environmental journalist now based in Pakistan
The Methane hysteria is not so......and is very likely a transient methane response....which we are seeing now...
Arctic Permafrost May Not Hasten Global Warming, Study Says (Bloomberg)
Frozen methane chunks not responsible for abrupt increases in atmospheric methane (Penn State)
Greenland’s ‘good news’ methane finding (CSIRO Australia)
No Methane 'Burp' Accelerating Climate Change (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Scientists Find Good News About Methane Bubbling Up From the Ocean Floor (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Study Rules Out Ancient ‘Bursts’ of Methane From Seafloor Deposits (Oregon State University)
Ancient Permafrost and a Future, Warmer Arctic
(Science, Vol. 321, No. 5896, p. 1648, September 19, 2008)
- Duane G. Froese, John A. Westgate, Alberto V. Reyes, Randolph J. Enkin, Shari J. Preece
Near-surface permafrost degradation: How severe during the 21st century?We report the presence of relict ground ice in subarctic Canada that is greater than 700,000 years old, with the implication that ground ice in this area has survived past interglaciations that were warmer and of longer duration than the present interglaciation.
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 9, May, 2007)
- G. Delisle
Based on paleoclimatic data and in consequence of this study, it is suggested that scenarios calling for massive release of methane in the near future from degrading permafrost are questionable.
