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Clathrate gun hypothesis, an Uncommon card
The clathrate gun hypothesis is a proposed explanation for the periods of rapid warming during the Quaternary.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Ranked #889 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The hypothesis is that changes in fluxes in upper intermediate waters in the ocean caused temperature fluctuations that alternately accumulated and occasionally released methane clathrate on upper continental slopes.
- This would have had an immediate impact on the global temperature, as methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
- Despite its atmospheric lifetime of around 12 years, methane's global warming potential is 72 times greater than that of carbon dioxide over 20 years, and 25 times over 100 years.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Clathrate gun hypothesis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Williamborg, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.






