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Old 04-06-2015, 08:47 AM
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It's a hell of a lot worse than that. There's a hell of a lot of frozen methane under the sea floor. As the polar ice melts and the temperature of sea water rises, that methane will thaw and be released.

Methane is a significantly more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.

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