Why might melting permafrost be important for future climate change?
What will be an ideal response?
Melting permafrost results in lakes and water-logged soil with anaerobic (low oxygen levels) conditions that create an environment in which methane producing organisms can flourish. As we will see in Chapter 15, methane is an important greenhouse gas and the atmospheric concentration has more than doubled over pre-industrial levels. Chapter 15 also shows that the rate of increase in atmospheric concentration has slowed or stopped in recent years. This is potentially good news for greenhouse warming, but meting permafrost could change this outlook. Methane emission form regions of melting permafrost could double to over 100 million metric tons per year. However, there is considerable uncertainty in these numbers and some estimates put the potential for methane emissions much higher. .
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What will be an ideal response?
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