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Posted Sun Jul 6 2008: from Nature Geoscience, via ScienceDaily:
New Pathway For Methane Production In The Oceans Discovered http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1215356116
A new pathway for methane production has been uncovered in the oceans, and this has a significant potential impact for the study of greenhouse gas production on our planet. The article, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, reveals that aerobic decomposition of an organic, phosphorus-containing compound, methylphosphonate, may be responsible for the supersaturation of methane in ocean surface waters.... Interest in this research crosses many specialties. Oceanographers will be excited because it offers a solution to the long standing methane paradox. Microbiologists will be excited because it shows an aerobic production pathway of methane, which goes against everything that is currently known about methane, and Climatologists will be interested because it's a potent greenhouse gas that we don't have constraints on, and this new pathway is very exciting.
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'Doc Michael says:
Exciting indeed.
Oh, and scary as hell, too.

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