Originally Posted by
Natural Lefty
Actually, the new theory is that melting of ice will allow huge amounts of methane gas to be released into the atmosphere, perhaps CO2 also, but methane is an even stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, so the effects will be exacerbated. Most climate scientists are not saying that it will kill off all the humans (although some gloom and doomers do), but the problems of global warming will worsen. My environmental scientist brother has told me about this as well as it being on online sources. It's not just a theory, either. Methane is being found leaking into the atmosphere at unprecedented rates in arctic areas, and atmospheric levels of methane are increasing.