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Why not build a massive off-sore drilling Rig and drill down and tap into and capture and store it as fuel for busses and trains and slowly release the pressure build up?
All Doom and Gloom...I say why not tap into the positives of this and benefit from it and create some jobs and whole new industry out of this that helps our economy grow.
Catastrophic, widespread dissociation of methane gas hydrates will not be triggered by continued climate warming at contemporary rates (0.2ÂşC per decade; IPCC 2007) over timescales of a few hundred years. Most of Earth's gas hydrates occur at low saturations and in sediments at such great depths below the seafloor or onshore permafrost that they will barely be affected by warming over even 103 yr. Even when CH4 is liberated from gas hydrates, oxidative and physical processes may greatly reduce the amount that reaches the atmosphere as CH4. The CO2 produced by oxidation of CH4 released from dissociating gas hydrates will likely have a greater impact on the Earth system (e.g., on ocean chemistry and atmospheric CO2 concentrations; Archer et al. 2009) than will the CH4 that remains after passing through various sinks.
Contemporary and future gas hydrate degradation will occur primarily on the circum-Arctic Ocean continental shelves (Sector 2; Macdonald 1990, Lachenbruch et al. 1994, Maslin 2010), where subsea permafrost thawing and methane hydrate dissociation have been triggered by warming and inundation since Late Pleistocene time, and at the feather edge of the GHSZ on upper continental slopes (Sector 3), where the zone's full thickness can dissociate rapidly due to modest warming of intermediate waters. More CH4 may be sequestered in upper continental slope gas hydrates than in those associated with subsea permafrost; however, CH4 that reaches the seafloor from dissociating Arctic Ocean shelf gas hydrates is much more likely to enter the atmosphere rapidly and as CH4, not CO2. Proof is still lacking that gas hydrate dissociation currently contributes to seepage from upper continental slopes or to elevated seawater CH4 concentrations on circum-Arctic Ocean shelves. An even greater challenge for the future is determining the contribution of global gas hydrate dissociation to contemporary and future atmospheric CH4 concentrations.
So, I guess you don't believe in gravity or evolution, either?
Gravity can be tested empirically and consistently establishes itself via proper scientific experiment.
CAGW can not establish itself through the same means as it is based on compounding assumptions.
Though I think his claim about the MWP is incorrect. There is debate as to the extent of MWP and our past peaks, though to be honest, my money is on the MWP being warmer as there is a lot of evidence that supports it.
It was disproved because of selective data that was massaged/revised to get the desired result.
Why you haven't heard any more about it.
Why al-Gore has been silent.
I don't believe you. I asked you to prove your claim, not repeat it. Please link to the papers that show the previous research was in error. Please show us the revised temp profile. Prove this lie.
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