[silverleaf]

Or they can just call in the Russian air force to bomb the methane and save the earth, as in the really REEEaally bad SyFy movie “Ice Quakes” that is now roaming the network

Seriously, this could be not good

Is there technology to capture methane plumes measuring over a kilometer?

Gregory Ryskin theorizes that this type of methane release could affect the ocean flow and cause polar magnetic shift rapidly, as has happened in the past without as-yet known cause

http://iopscience.iop.org/0034-4885/73/12/122801/

[montag813]

Or they can just call in the Russian air force to bomb the methane and save the earth, as in the really REEEaally bad SyFy movie “Ice Quakes” that is now roaming the network

Ah, a SyFy movie...let me guess....monstrously bad special FX...tight camera shots to hide the cheap warehouse sets...a 'war room' with 2 people using Windows 95 PCs somehow directing all the action, and a 30-year old mainframe in the background....and Dirk Benedict as the president. Close?

[Ole Okie]

Is there technology to capture methane plumes measuring over a kilometer?

No, we had the devil of a time capturing any part of the BP oil leak in the Gulf.

To get rid of the methane, strike a match. :)