Response to Arctic tundra emits methane even in winter

I found this article very interesting. It was a little bit stretched out from my topic, but it really explained a lot about global warming in the arctic areas. I didn't think that methane gases could go through frozen ground, and apparently the scientists didn't think so as well, but they found out it can, and I think that's pretty neat that it can do that. Maybe they that will help them figure out how to stop it, or have it at least not increase. It gave me a lot of facts that I needed about the arctic, and the greenhouse effect. I loved how it had many quotes from scientists and researchers explaining about how they felt about this new discovery of the greenhouse gases.

Arctic tundra emits methane even in winter

This article is about how the arctic tundra emits the same amount of methane gases in the winter as the warmer months of the year. Finding this out helped scientist understand the greenhouse effect. Scientists had thought it was unlikely that greenhouse gases could escape from beneath the frozen tundra. Christensen, who led the study published in the journal Nature said in a telephone interview, "Mother Nature is showing us something that is really surprising." and that "Nobody would expect to have loads of gas seeping out from a frozen environment." Lots of things are causing greenhouse gases like human activities such as burning fossil fuels.
"This study improves our understanding of how nature is connected to climate," Christensen said. "In doing that it gives us a better understanding on how climate change is affecting arctic ecosystems."
There was a research team who stayed on Zackenberg Valley research station in northern Greenland for about 2 months researching and taking measurements of the frozen tundra and compare it to the tundra in the summer months. They found out that in early September when the ground starts to freeze, the methane increases, about as much as in the summer months. They had always assumed that when the ground was frozen, it was not active in terms of the greenhouse gas effect, but they now realize it was a false assumption.