{"id":285,"date":"2014-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/cage\/2014\/01\/21\/cage-contributes-to-new-findings-on-methane-release-from-the-seabed\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T08:36:57","slug":"cage-contributes-to-new-findings-on-methane-release-from-the-seabed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/cage\/2014\/01\/21\/cage-contributes-to-new-findings-on-methane-release-from-the-seabed\/","title":{"rendered":"CAGE contributes to new findings on methane release from the seabed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><b>A new Science paper with contributions from CAGE presents new findings on methane release and global warming. <\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Methane seepage from gas hydrates off the coast of Svalbard has been observed regularly. A study now confirms that this seepage has been going on for several thousand years, and therefore cannot solely result from new climate changes driven by mankind.<\/p>\n<h2>Climate change and unstable gas hydrates<\/h2>\n<p>These findings are the result of an international collaboration led by Christian Berndt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geomar.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geomar<\/a> in Kiel, Germany, and was recently presented in Science with CAGE<a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/cage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/benedicte-ferre.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1451 lazyload\" alt=\"Benedicte Ferre\" data-src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/cage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/benedicte-ferre.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a> researcher\u00a0<a title=\"B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Ferr\u00e9\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/cage\/research-team\/benedicte-ferre\/\">B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Ferr\u00e9<\/a> (pictured right) as co-author.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main questions CAGE asks is whether future climate changes will increase methane release from gas hydrates in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers can now conclude that previous observations of large contemporary emissions cannot be considered proof of accelerating hydrate destabilization.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;\"><b>Unknown at what rate methane reservoirs change<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u2018Our findings indicate that methane seepage has been going on longer than first assumed in this area, independent of anthropogenic warming,\u2019\u00a0B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte explains.<\/p>\n<p>However, this does not mean that we can\u2019t draw a line between climate change and unstable gas hydrates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is still worrying because although this seepage is not caused by warming, that doesn\u2019t mean that future global warming won\u2019t cause destabilization of gas hydrates,\u2019\u00a0B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte says.<\/p>\n<p>Gas hydrates are only stable at high pressure and low temperatures. It is therefore of major importance to keep monitoring methane release, particularly in sensitive areas like the Arctic. One of CAGE&#8217;s effots for understanding rapid changes in methane release is to install permanent monitoring stations on the ocean floor.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/cage\/wp-content\/uploads\/berndt-et-al_science_20141.pdf\">Read the Science paper here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Science paper with contributions from CAGE presents new findings on methane release and global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123546,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29,10,27,30,28,11],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-climate-change","tag-our-researchers","tag-publications","tag-research-news","tag-results","tag-water-column"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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