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The Giant Methane Monster Lurking...
There's something lurking deep under the frozen Arctic Ocean, and if it gets released, it could spell disaster for our planet. That something is methane. Methane is one of the strongest of the natural greenhouse gases, about 80 times more potent than CO2, and while it may not get as much attention as its cousin CO2, it certainly can do as much, if not more, damage to our planet.
That's because methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and there are trillions of tons of it embedded in a kind of ice slurry called methane hydrate or methane clathrate crystals in the Arctic and in the seas around the continental shelves all around the world. If enough of this methane is released quickly enough, it won't just produce the same old global warming.
It could produce an extinction of species on a wide scale, an extinction that could even include the human race. If there is a "ticking time bomb" on our planet that could lead to a global warming so rapid and sudden that we would have no way of dealing with it, it's methane.
Right now, estimates suggest that there's over 1,000 gigatons - that's a thousand billion tons - of carbon in methane form trapped just under the Arctic ice. And if stays trapped under the ice, we might have a chance. But, thanks to the global warming that's already occurring, Arctic sea ice is melting at unprecedented rates.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The Supreme Court Monarchs (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Need to Know: The Supreme Court Monarchs- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio 
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Daily Take: The Giant Methane Monster Lurking...
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Anything Goes Summer - with some big stories and some stories that no one else is covering
Bible: " Matthew 18:6" " If anyone causes one of these little ones--those who believe in me--to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.".
Hour Two: More Anything Goes Summer with your calls! Letter: " Letter to Major John Cartwrigt" by Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, June 5, 1824. " We had no occasion to search into musty records, to hunt up royal parchments, or to investigate the laws and institutions of a semi-barbarous ancestry. We appealed to those of nature, and found them engraved on our hearts" Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
Hour Three: How do we hold SCOTUS accountable?- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio |
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
The latest on the situation in the Ukraine - Thom speaks with Professor Stephen Cohen, The Nation Magazine
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