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Study Finds East Siberian Arctic Shelf Showing Instability and Widespread Venting of the GHG Methane; Releases May Be Much Larger and Faster Than Anticipated

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seismic image showing gas charged sediments and gas release from the bottom. Methane is a greenhouse gas more than 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Methane can also be stored in the seabed as methane gas or methane hydrates and then released as subsea permafrost thaws. Bottom left. bathymetry lines. Bottom right.

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IPCC Scientist Says Climate Change Likely to Accelerate More Quickly and Be More Damaging Than Predicted

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There is a real risk that human-caused climate change will accelerate the release of carbon dioxide from forest and tundra ecosystems, which have been storing a lot of carbon for thousands of years. We don’t want to cross a critical threshold where this massive release of carbon starts to run on autopilot.

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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for the first quarter of 2011, according to data from the California Department of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). Vertical steam injection wells are not effective in areas with limited available surface locations, expensive surface locations (swamp, tundra), or for supporting individual, ‘thin’ (~. Source: Chevron.

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Toyota sellers: Room in lineup for a Ford Maverick fighter

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An unabashed Toyota fan — Gates has been promoting Toyotas in Kentucky since he was once 18 — he’s been soliciting for a compact Toyota pickup “since back in the Jim Press days,” he mentioned, relating to the longtime emblem govt who left the corporate in 2007. “The quality small truck is Toyota’s DNA.

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