{"id":2215,"date":"2017-05-22T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2017-05-22T17:33:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:33:11","slug":"isnt-science-wonderful-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/22\/isnt-science-wonderful-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t science a wonderful thing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it doesn&#8217;t have a political agenda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/news\/ocean-absorption-carbon-dioxide-more-makes-methane-emissions-seafloor-methane-seeps\">They were not expecting this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">U.S., Norwegian, and German scientists report back on the surprising results of an Arctic Ocean research expedition.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The ocean waters near the surface of the Arctic Ocean absorbed 2,000 times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than the amount of methane that escaped into the atmosphere from the same waters, according to a study by the USGS Gas Hydrates Project and collaborators in Germany and Norway. The study was conducted near Norway\u2019s Svalbard Islands, above several seafloor methane seeps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere where the study was conducted more than offset the potential warming effect of the methane emissions that were observed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Are you listening boys and girls?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50531 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.timesargus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2017-04-13\/1p1.jpg?w=1644\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2017-04-13\/1p1.jpg 1644w, http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2017-04-13\/1p1-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2017-04-13\/1p1-768x494.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2017-04-13\/1p1-1024x658.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2017-04-13\/1p1-156x100.jpg 156w, http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2017-04-13\/1p1-1200x772.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"About 1,500 Vermont students march down East State Street in Montpelier on Wednesday as part of the Vermont Youth Lobby\u2019s Rally to Save the Planet. Below, students cheer the performance of Harwood Union High School rapper Logan Wedge. JEB WALLACE-BRODEUR \/ STAFF PHOTOS\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Your freedom hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it doesn&#8217;t have a political agenda. They were not expecting this. U.S., Norwegian, and German scientists report back on the surprising results of an Arctic Ocean research expedition.\u00a0 The ocean waters near the surface of the Arctic Ocean absorbed 2,000 times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than the amount of methane that escaped &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/22\/isnt-science-wonderful-thing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Isn&#8217;t science a wonderful thing.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"","site-content-layout":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Isn&#039;t science a wonderful thing. - deepredpond<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/22\/isnt-science-wonderful-thing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Isn&#039;t science a wonderful thing. - deepredpond\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When it doesn&#8217;t have a political agenda. 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