You should also research some of the existing methanotroph bacteria studies, there are some strains available without GM.
One of the most interesting is the Antarctic researcher who was studying the ice cores. He used some weird culture when his regular supply ran out, and found that every single core he tested was inbued with methanotrophs. They were dormant in the cores, but they were still metabolizing very slowly, and they where in all of them.
This points to the major possibility that the “historical” high levels of CO2 everyone points to in the record, were actually methane gun events, that upped the methano’s, then as the level dropped due to predation and conversion, we are left with the gas bubbles people are studying now, which show very high levels of CO2 before industrialization.
and as i posted before , the Ridiculously Resilent Ridge atmo high is still in place, we are getting a winter storm front right now in AZ. Gonna be 4 years soon, and we know about emplaced highs, we get one most every summer for 4-6
weeks.
One of the biggest drivers in the denier argument is the historically high CO2 in the ice core record, and the pore sizes of plants stomatas. Both of those could easily be explained by a methane gun event.
What is most interesting to me, is how did so many methanotrophs get airbourne?
Most likely to me is undersea volcanoes lofting seawater loaded with them, because if there was enough methane in the air, to support evolution of an airbourne bacteria just to fill a niche, it would take longer than the 7 year life of methane in the atmo....
Interesting. But there is also a bacteria which is able to produce methane and it was suggested as one of the reason of extinction event 250 mln years from now.
You should also research some of the existing methanotroph bacteria studies, there are some strains available without GM.
One of the most interesting is the Antarctic researcher who was studying the ice cores. He used some weird culture when his regular supply ran out, and found that every single core he tested was inbued with methanotrophs. They were dormant in the cores, but they were still metabolizing very slowly, and they where in all of them. This points to the major possibility that the “historical” high levels of CO2 everyone points to in the record, were actually methane gun events, that upped the methano’s, then as the level dropped due to predation and conversion, we are left with the gas bubbles people are studying now, which show very high levels of CO2 before industrialization.
and as i posted before , the Ridiculously Resilent Ridge atmo high is still in place, we are getting a winter storm front right now in AZ. Gonna be 4 years soon, and we know about emplaced highs, we get one most every summer for 4-6 weeks.
So you mean that historic CO2 cores are flawed and current CO2 is much more dangerous?
That is exactly the danger.
One of the biggest drivers in the denier argument is the historically high CO2 in the ice core record, and the pore sizes of plants stomatas. Both of those could easily be explained by a methane gun event.
What is most interesting to me, is how did so many methanotrophs get airbourne?
Most likely to me is undersea volcanoes lofting seawater loaded with them, because if there was enough methane in the air, to support evolution of an airbourne bacteria just to fill a niche, it would take longer than the 7 year life of methane in the atmo....
http://astrobiology.com/2016/08/specialized-life-forms-abound-at-arctic-methane-seeps.html
edit: add
https://aeon.co/videos/how-airborne-microbes-ride-clouds-hop-continents-and-even-make-it-rain
Interesting. But there is also a bacteria which is able to produce methane and it was suggested as one of the reason of extinction event 250 mln years from now.
I read just last year that the most abundant organism on the planet can become a methanogen when conditions arise, the tiny, seabourne S11