re: #217 Unakite

Yes, that is the point. At the pressures in the deep sea the clathrates are stable. However, on the coast of Siberia some of the continental shelf waters are very very shallow. So not only are the waters warming faster, the pressure is lower.

Furthermore, in land, especially in western Siberia, there is a huge load of permafrost covered land that is almost at sea level. The land is warming too… and as it does the organic material preserved becomes food for all the methagenic bacteria.