Methane Clathrate and Health

The mounting concern of global climate change causiated by methane release from clathrate hydrate is increasingly speculated due to rising environmental concerns with potential economic relief for developing countries. There is a clear lack of emphasis on studies contemplating the destabilization of substrate resulting in the release of methane gas, a study derived from continuous climate warming cycles. The predictability of a warming climate in the high Arctic is reliant upon ecological stability of weather patterns resultant thereof a continuous release of methane from a substrate stability zone from permafrost substrates and seafloor release.

Human determination in finding and using alternative energy sources demonstrated within our past energy and its constant consumption forwards the causation for this study. The preservation of a stable living environment, the  devolution of delving into the realms of human health practice, particularly those in remote sensitive living locations, home to those still reliant on subsidized living, is a viably reason for this study.

Past determinants of climate change have occurred yet not to extremists of annual global temperature release. This present a multifaceted problem, the concern I’m point at is the destabilization of clathrate hydrate. During a regular climate cycle, climate sensitive regions rely heavily on the equilibrium of weather systems. The lack of precision in the data is presented even in latest IPCC report, where methane levels were far less then the actual extent as there was no data on seafloor substrates and permafrost levels, where the largest concentrations exist. In Arctic regions, some of the most environmentally sensitive regions of the world, the human health implications are far more explicit requiring a more immediate response to heightened risk clathrate destabilization and methane release from permafrost. This is of concern as companies and countries are now becoming more interested in its extraction. Countries that do not have access to their own natural fuel sources want to become less dependant on large energy states, countries that harbor gas and selling it at a premiums as countries are being less able to afford.

The immediate importance of studies regarding human welfare due to excessive release of permafrost methane and destabilization of seafloor disposition from clathrate hydrate is formulated around the increasing variability of global climate cycles. Methano-organic degradation of seafloor biomes due to loss of clathrate surplus in the circumpolar north is recognized as a immediate problem due to warming oceans where risk of destabilization is much higher, furthering sea ice loss. Consider that countries such as Russia, Japan, and India are now involved in clathrate extraction with great optimism, clathrate is growing in the direction as an alternative fuel resource for household electricity. Uses range from use as household electric to fueling vehicles, making this ‘the’ emerging fuel source for its mobility. In Arctic regions where methane is an abundant source, its use could have far greater implications then examined in response to the growing global need for cheap abundant alternative energy sources.  The reprocussions of a comprehensive bioremediation study would be pertinent to the prevention of bioremediation practices in the degradation of methane substrates on living organisms reliant on the methane clathrate energy source and the further repercussions on Arctic ecological systems and the peoples that exist.

There are differences between hydrocarbon availability and the depletion of current energy reserves, relevant to the harmful uses of alternative sources regarding global climate change. Methane hydrocarbons is being pursued as an alternative energy and widely available  in all regions of the world; restricting its extraction will come under much scrutiny as countries are growing vastly in population, becoming heavily dependent on energy resources that they do not have or cannot afford.  The G8 is still in charge of these vast energy resources as many countries seek alternative energies to develop in their own right without international aid, which they entirely have their right to pursue.

Methane hydrocarbons are seen as viable alternatives as countries would appear ‘incandescent’ in dealing with international repercussions in dealing with international matters of Arctic sovereignty where Arctic international boundaries have potential disputations and disposal of energy resources would be exacerbated by the growing environmental concerns. Amongst the nations of the circumpolar north that are heavily reliant upon fuels, this presents us another challenge of how to correctly use and extract a readily abundant resource to avoid economic, environmental and health repercussions.

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