End of the world? Top scientist reveals “We’re f*****!”

It’s probably not the words you want to hear
from a leading figure on climate change.
But Jason Box, a professor at the Geological
Survey of Denmark and Greenland reckons,
“We’re f**ked”.
He made the remarks on his twitter account
after a team of scientists made an alarming
discovery.
It appears that huge quantities of methane
gas are leaking from the sea floor under the
arctic and rising into the atmosphere.
Methane is one of the most dangerous
greenhouse gasses as it traps far more heat
than other gases, such as carbon dioxide.
And this increased temperature is helping to
warm up parts of the Earth at an alarming
rate.
Box told website Motherboard, "Even if a small
fraction of the Arctic carbon were released to
the atmosphere, we're f**ked.”
“Methane is more than 20 times more potent
than CO2 in trapping infrared as part of the
natural greenhouse effect.”
"Methane getting to the surface—that's potent
stuff.”
"The conventional thought is that the bubbles
would be dissolved before they reached the
surface.
“But if the plumes are making it to the surface,
that's a brand new source of heat-trapping
gases that we need to worry about.”
What makes this news even more concerning is
that the Arctic is warming faster than
anywhere else on earth.
And, as the ocean gets hotter, more methane
gets pumped into the atmosphere.
It's all happening fast and Box thinks things
could change very rapidly, "I may escape a lot
of this, but my daughter might not. She's 3
years old."
This news comes as giant sinkholes discovered
in Siberia have been linked to changing
temperatures on the planet.
The holes are forming as long-frozen
permafrost thaws due to increased heat, the
earth around it then collapses.
And given the right conditions, some scientists
are concerned that something similar could
happen in other places around the globe.
Carolyn Ruppel, chief of the U.S. Geological
Survey's Gas Hydrates Project, told NBC
News, "Global warming is happening, and it's
exacerbated in the Arctic.
"And if these craters are related to permafrost
thaw, it's a very visible effect of what's
happening to the Earth."