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mackdaddy

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3. OK, cool that there are methane eating microbes under 800 meters of ice, but

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Tue Aug 1, 2017, 02:49 PM

Aug 2017

I am not sure this has any application to the melting permafrost in the Arctic. By the time the Antarctic ice sheet melt probably in a few hundred years, humans may well already be gone from the Methane being released in the Arctic, NOW.

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Methane-eating microbes found beneath Antarctica's melting ice sheets [View all] OKIsItJustMe Aug 2017 OP

"Methane-eating microbes " mitch96 Aug 2017 #1

Why is it that any mention of "methane" inevitably leads to a "cow fart" joke? OKIsItJustMe Aug 2017 #2

" leads to a "cow fart" joke?" mitch96 Aug 2017 #5

OK, cool that there are methane eating microbes under 800 meters of ice, but mackdaddy Aug 2017 #3

Those antarctic microbes are not unique OKIsItJustMe Aug 2017 #4