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it_does_follow on Feb 8, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ gro...

Isn't the methane in permafrost produced by microbes? It's basically wet lands that ended up being frozen, and as they thaw they go back to releasing the methane being processed by the breakdown of organic matter from microbes.

misja111 on Feb 8, 2022 [–]

Not necessarily, it also comes from natural gas: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/32/e2107632118#:~:text=Meth....

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