[The Comedian]

Just count how long before you are told about how wrong you are and how you are a ‘scaremonger’ and how when we were you we use to drink shots of Jack and benzene and naphtha in our cigarette lighters and they passed gas much worse than any methane from any old oil well.

I look at the relatively brief period of recorded human history, and count the number of stable societies and their respective lifespans, and I look at the geological record and see extinctions and catastrophic earth changes, and I conclude one thing:

We're overdue for a >50% planetary population reduction via at least a dozen possible causes. And this abiotic oil release wasn't even on my list.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[blam]

"We're overdue for a >50% planetary population reduction via at least a dozen possible causes. And this abiotic oil release wasn't even on my list. "

I'm a catastrophist and I can't disagree with you. I wonder what the reaction would be if something like this were to happen tomorrow?

Evidence Of Tunguska-Type Impacts Over The Pacific Basin Around The Year 1178 AD

[blam]

FYI...I’m keeping my eye on Katla.