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> War Against Iran, April 2006 Biological Threat and Executive Order 13292 by Jorge Hirsch

2 April 2006, 16:30

Hope it isn’t true. I suggest to you that the issue of Iran is irrelivant, because massive amounts of methane are about to flood the atmosphere from melting permafrost clathrate:

Fact 1:

• There is an estimated 400 billion tons of methane trapped in permafrost ice.

Bacteria digest carbon in the soil, and a by-product is methane. As the gas rises to the surface, some got trapped by permafrost ice rather than entering the air slowly over tens of millions of years.

Fact 2:

• An estimated 50% of permafrost will melt by 2050, and 90% by 2100.

As a little permafrost ice melts, methane is emitted into the air, leading to more warming and more melting.

Methane is more than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2.

Fact 3:

• A large peat bog in western Siberia is proving this positive feedback loop.

The peat bog is the size of France and Germany together, and is estimated to contain 70 billion tons of carbon. It has already warmed 3C, and the methane level is 25 times higher there.

Conclusion:

• An estimated 5 times more greenhouse gas will be emitted by the earth in the next 50 years than mankind throughout the entire Industrial Revolution.

An estimated 200 billion tons of methane will flood the atmosphere in the next 50 years (50% of the estimated methane in permafrost ice). Mankind has emitted an estimated 800 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

200 billion tons of methane is equivalent to 4000 billion tons of CO2 (because methane is 20 times as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2), so 5 times as much greenhouse gas is expected to be emitted by the earth than mankind has emitted during the entire Industrial Revolution.

Analysis:

• The effect of methane flooding the atmosphere is runaway global warming.
• It is a potential bottleneck for mankind and an existential threat to the US.

I will furnish additional information upon request. Furthermore, I believe I have the only solution to this threat.

Suggested reading:

http://planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6724&Itemid=69

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0222-27.htm

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2006/02/26/news/opinion/opin820.txt

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