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ChristianKl comments on LINK: Melting Arctic is releasing millions of tons of methane - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: polymathwannabe 07 July 2014 11:31PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 17 July 2014 11:53:41AM *  1 point [-]

Without knowing how much CO2 is stored in the sea it's difficult to say whether 2.5% more CO2 capacity is much or very little.

I think the key question is: How much methane/CO2 is a liter of water in the state of ice storing and how much is the average liter of sea water storing.