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- beautiful bubbles in Canadian lake are flammable methane gas
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) May 20th, 2013 Catholic
Online (  It may look beautiful, but they definitely have the
potential to be destructive. As is they were clouds perched in
the sky on a sunny day, the white and billowy bubbles in the
frozen blue waters of Alberta, Canada's Abraham Lake are lovely
- but these bubbles don't contain air. They're full of highly
flammable methane.  LOS ANGEELS, CA (Catholic Online) - These
methane bubbles are trapped inside the frigid lake -- until
spring comes and the ice starts to thaw. Caused by the
decomposition of organic matter-like plants, animals and
microbes, methane gas begins to surge up in the warmer months as
it floats ever closer to the surface.  The methane stays trapped
beneath the last remnants of ice and then the ice cracks and the
methane bubbles away into the atmosphere. That's when the
trouble begins. Methane, a greenhous