Friday, September 16, 2005

Peat Bogs

Ok. So, that man I lived with for 18 years is freaking me out about Siberia. While he still holds true to his stand that Global Warming is not a derivative of cars and carbon dioxide emissions, he is worried about the peat bogs in Western Siberia. This is my understanding of it:

So, throughout the history of the world the earth has warmed and cooled. Granted, nothing ever truly cools, it simply lacks or looses heat. Anywho, the earth ends up adjusting and we go on our merry way or something like the great flood of Noah happens when the ice caps melt. Yee freaking Haw. So back to the peat bogs. Back in the day when the world was warmer in Siberia, there grew moss & lichens...lots of it. So it froze over during the ice age perhaps and could be possibly thawing as we speak. BFD, right? Wrong. This is were I freak a little. As long as all the peat is covered with slush...it's only producing carbon dioxide. Now if the slush melts...it produces methane...tonnes and tonnes of methane. 20x's more destructive than CO2. And they're melting.

So, I say all that to say this: the ozone over Siberia will be depleated causing massive Global Warming. And you thought Houston summers sucked.

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