They discover a threat to humanity at the bottom of the ocean, which, when it begins, will be irreversible

February 15, 2019

The latest studies have revealed that this threat is currently "asleep", but the worst is to be feared once the process has begun.

One of the most serious threats to humanity over the next few years it was discovered in the seabedalthough the same currently she is "asleep".

It is about gas tanks encapsulated in the seafloor. And once the process of mbadive carbon leakage has begun, the situation will be irreversible.

According to portal experts Phys.org, these could be released just at the end of this century. As this research suggests, an increase in atmospheric temperature of this magnitude already finished the ice age.

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Underwater reservoirs of carbon dioxide and methane are produced when volcanic activities release gas, which freezes until it is encapsulated in the form of a mbad of hydrates. . It can be in liquid or solid state. Deposits are around the entire planet, and the vast majority are intact unless disturbed by external factors, such as ocean warming.

These studies have already been published in January in the journal Letters of research on the environmentand remember that about 17,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene, a lot of greenhouse gases escaped.

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Lowell Stott, the senior author of the study and researcher at the University of Southern California (USA), pointed out that past data is used to anticipate the future and "know if these carbon deposits could destabilize again "

"The last time this happened, climate change was so important that it caused the end of the ice age, and once this geological process begins, we can not turn it off."concluded the expert, warning that the oceans would reach this critical temperature by the end of the century.