re: #219 Claire

2 thoughts- first- is enough methane coming out of the permafrost on dry land that it could be burned off? Probably not, but just curious.

Second, if I did the calculation correctly, which is really hard after 3/5 bottle of 3 buck chuck shiraz, the 7 teragrams of methane being emitted is equivalent to the air column above 1/5 of a square mile of the earth’s surface. Intuitively, that seems very, very, very not significant, relatively speaking, of course. The update article is helpful with putting this into perspective- thanks for that.

How much C. botulinum would it take to kill a human, and what would the mass ratio be?