LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) - A release of methane in the Arctic - TopicsExpress



          

LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) - A release of methane in the Arctic could speed the melting of sea ice and climate change with a cost to the global economy of up to $60 trillion over coming decades, according to a paper published in the journal Nature. Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Erasmus University in the Netherlands used economic modelling to calculate the consequences of a release of a 50-gigatonne reservoir of methane from thawing permafrost under the East Siberian Sea. "The global impact of a warming Arctic is an economic time-bomb."
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:13:27 +0000

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