期刊
AMBIO
卷 50, 期 11, 页码 2050-2059出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-020-01392-y
关键词
Climate change; Methane emissions; Permafrost; Siberia
资金
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [18-05-60005]
The study indicates that methane emission in Siberian permafrost regions will increase by less than 20 Tg/year by the mid-21st century, leading to a global temperature rise of less than 0.02 degrees Celsius. This challenges the methane bomb concept and suggests that the feedback between thawing Siberian wetlands and the global climate has been overestimated.
Permafrost has been warming in the last decade at rates up to 0.39 degrees C 10 year(-1), raising public concerns about the local and global impacts, such as methane emission. We used satellite data on atmospheric methane concentrations to retrieve information about methane emission in permafrost and non-permafrost environments in Siberia with different biogeochemical conditions in river valleys, thermokarst lakes, wetlands, and lowlands. We evaluated the statistical links with air temperature, precipitation, depth of seasonal thawing, and freezing and developed a statistical model. We demonstrated that by the mid-21st century methane emission in Siberian permafrost regions will increase by less than 20 Tg year(-1), which is at the lower end of other estimates. Such changes will lead to less than 0.02 degrees C global temperature rise. These findings do not support the methane bomb concept. They demonstrate that the feedback between thawing Siberian wetlands and the global climate has been significantly overestimated.
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