re: #72 Dark_Falcon

And a chilling thing to think of is the final “yet”. Someone may demonstrate tomorrow a mechanism that will take place due to warming that will allow methane to outgas at a speed enough to cause a runaway effect.

And CO2 on its own is going to wreak havoc enough. As the article says:

No. CO2 is plenty to be frightened of, while methane is frosting on the cake. Imagine you are in a Toyota on the highway at 60 miles per hour approaching stopped traffic, and you find that the brake pedal is broken. This is CO2. Then you figure out that the accelerator has also jammed, so that by the time you hit the truck in front of you, you will be going 90 miles per hour instead of 60. This is methane. Is now the time to get worried? No, you should already have been worried by the broken brake pedal. Methane sells newspapers, but it’s not the big story, nor does it look to be a game changer to the big story, which is CO2.