Current climate models say we're on track for some pretty drastic changes if we don't reduce our carbon footprint. But a new study has found a huge potential source of carbon emissions that are so far not accounted for in climate models: reservoirs of gases trapped at the seafloor, which could be released as the oceans warm up. And it's happened before, with the team suggesting that these gases belched up from the deep thousands of years ago and put an end to the last ice age.
.. Continue Reading Carbon reservoirs in the ocean floor may have ended the last ice age – and could bubble up againCategory: Environment
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- Australian National University
- Carbon
- Carbon Dioxide
- climate change
- Climate Change
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Lund University
- Ocean
- University of Southern California
from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2GrDeyG
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