re: #133 freetoken

As much as a doomer that I’ve become, I do not foresee the extinction of our species.

Methane Thought To Be Responsible For Mass Extinction

Ryskin calculated that some 10,000 gigatons of dissolved methane could have accumulated in water near the ocean floor under high pressure. If released quickly, perhaps triggered by an earthquake, the resulting cloud of methane would have an explosive force about 10,000 times greater than the world’s entire stockpile of nuclear weapons. The huge conflagrations plus flooding and overturned oceans would cause the extinctions.

Why wouldn’t this happen within the next few decades, thanks to faster-than-ever warming, permafrost melting, and methane being belched upward from a soon-to-be-ice-free arctic ocean?