Ocean surfaces laid bare by melting ice are emitting methane at a "significant" rate

[Cheeznado]

LA times article-

http://latimesblogs....28Greenspace%29

[skierinvermont]

LA times article-

http://latimesblogs....28Greenspace%29

CH4 concentrations had been stable in the atmosphere but are starting to rise slowly

[PhillipS]

LA times article-

http://latimesblogs....28Greenspace%29

This is something of a followup to a paper that came out in 2009 that described methane plumes seen near Svalbard .

[gracetoyou]

For some reason I'm not too worried. To me this doesn't make sense:

The process by which the open ocean surface is emitting methane, a more potent

greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, is uncertain, Wofsy said, adding that it

likely is not from frozen masses of methane known to be in deep oceans, nor from

methane being exhaled from newly thawed tundra.

How have they so quickly drawn this conlcusion?

[stellarfun]

For some reason I'm not too worried. To me this doesn't make sense:

How have they so quickly drawn this conlcusion?

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5970/1246.abstract