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[ot] bad newspaper reporting

from the WSJ 5March10
A key worry is that the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is shallow, with a depth of about 50 meters (165 feet) or less. Methane oxidizes in deep water, becoming carbon dioxide before it reaches the surface. But in shallow water, methane doesn't have enough time to oxidize and more of it ends up in the atmosphere.

since there is no attribution to a scientist as a source for this false (in several ways) statement i'd assume that the writer just concocted this 'fact'. This sort of reporting is far more egregious than misuse of 'to' and sloppy copy-editing.