Posted on 10/14/2015 12:10:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A fine example of why oil/gas are not “fossil fuels.”
They are continuously produced by the earth, under extreme pressure and temperature, and find their way to the surface.
“Frozen methane” emerging from the sea floor where boiling lava is also found?
Mix a 9.5 with a pile of methane hydrates and..
Waalaaaa.. 1906 all over again .. Or worse.
It’s amazing Mother Nature has already blow’d herself to kingdom comey . or has it?
I hope we’re not on a cruise to Alaska that day.
If the earth wasn’t spewing carbon then eventually we would run out as dead plants and animals burried would lock up so much carbon that plants would starve.
hasn’t = has
Earthfart. They were drilling near shore...Oregon...a few years back.
I had a circa 1850 book which explained the whole thing. Old maps show hot spots in the pacific. Nothing new.
Whale farts cause globull warming.
Clearly the only solution is socialist, global government with unlimited powers and abolition of private property.
But when you tell the lefties that, they look at you like you are from pluto.
Oh boy. Double whammy.. And then the new Madrid rips loose..
Oh boy.
The Coastal Commission is onboard with that.
“...by water that formed decades ago in a global warming hotspot...”
Huh? Decades ago everyone was worried about global cooling and the next Ice Age!?
Well, maybe not at this particular spot, but they have documented ocean methane vents in the past, especially in the Bermuda Triangle area. One theory is that these gas vents are what suddenly sink ships without a trace.
erf pharts
Umm - it might be FAR worse than 1906:
From the interwebs:
“The release of massive clouds of methane from icy hydrates buried under shallow ocean floors is the leading suspect for the most devastating extinction in the fossil record, according to a new analysis.
Methane best matches the unusual carbon-isotope fingerprints found at the scene of the crime, says Robert Berner of Yale University in Connecticut, US, though it cannot explain atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at the time.
Berner says: “It’s possible that you could have a combination” of effects causing the mass extinction that ended the Permian period, 250 million years ago. The event wiped out the vast majority of marine species and left Europe a near-desert.”
Something about this thread doesn’t pass the sniff test.
Nothing like a hugh pocket of methane to rearrange the dining room, living room bedroom and neighborhood way back then.. The Earth is still ‘maturing’ so to speak.. One can only imagine some of the burps that happened.. This stuff is raw energy.. We should harvest it.
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