It is egregious that our governments are not treating the risk of gas hydrate
releases due to our failure to address climate disruption but it is perhaps
even more egregious that the U.S. and several other governments are actively
promoting the intentional release of GHGs from this enormous
But isn't the prime question - at least the one driving most discussions of
"emergency" actions up north - catastrophic release?
Pretty clear this review damps down that concern, along with the papers
last year pointing to post-2010 methane concentration rise being mainly
tropical/biogenic.
https://www.usgs.gov/news/gas-hydrate-breakdown-unlikely-cause-massive-greenhouse-gas-release
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016RG000534/full
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016RG000534/pdf
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