2 recent reports on Global Warming

Recent reports on Global Warming:

Methane Gas release from Oceans:
A Storehouse of Greenhouse gases is opening up in Siberia:http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,547976,00.html

extracts:The report shows that Russian polar scientists have strong evidence that the first stages of Methane Hydrates melting are underway.In the permafrost bottom of the 200-meter-deep sea, enormous stores of gas hydrates lie dormant in mighty frozen layers of sediment. The carbon content of the ice-and-methane mixture here is estimated at 540 billion tons.

"This submarine hydrate was considered stable until now," says the Russian biogeochemist Natalia Shakhova.The permafrost has grown porous, says Shakhova, and already the shelf sea has become "a source of methane passing into the atmosphere."

The Russian scientists have estimated what might happen when this Siberian permafrost-seal thaws completely and all the stored gas escapes. They believe the methane content of the planet's atmosphere would increase twelvefold. "The result would be catastrophic global warming," say the scientists.

Animal Farming and Global warming:
Report on Global farm animal production and Global Warming: http://www.ehponline.org/members/2008/11034/11034.html

The report is a comprehensive study on how animal farming contributes to Global Warming.