Arctic methane seeps increase

According to a long-ish piece from the Associated Press (via the Anchorage Daily News), climate-change researchers are keeping their eyes on the troubling phenomenon of methane seeps in the Arctic. Methane is a greenhouse gas, more potent than CO2. The seeps come up when the permafrost trapping it melts, and the lake the story features has more than twenty such seeps bubbling gas to the surface. There has long been doubt about whether or not the Arctic will release a massive amount of methane due to warming, but scientists are observing that earlier dire predictions weren't far off. Read more here. We're still upset that all this seeping methane won't be brought to market so that consumers and industries can burn it, transforming it into less-destructive greenhouse gases.