More on that methane bubble in the Gulf of Mexico
More on that methane bubble discussed in the article I linked on my blog yesterday, in the form of videos. I've tried to pick videos with minimally hysterical narrators and a maximum of useful and checkable information. There are an awful lot of videos about this on Youtube now that are totally hysterical, minimally useful, and chock-full of conspiracy theories which a little reason and logic coupled with some very basic, high-school knowledge of science will quickly make clear make clear are total bullshit. So caveat emptor, you know? (And anything with Richard Hoagland's name on it is suspect -- once upon a time, he worked for NASA, but got canned for reasons still not clear. In revenge, he decided to push the stupidest, most obviously bullshit conspiracy theories about science and scientists he could, totally betraying what he claimed his mission was, to promote science. So I have no pity for him.) Okay, so here are some videos about that, and plenty more out there. You want to take these with a boxcar load of salt, as it still isn't totally certain what's going to happen out there. And remember: if there are great numbers of exclamation points in the title of the video or the explanatory text that comes with it, or everything is in CAPS!!!!, you probably want to steer clear of it. As for the political speculations, if the worst-case scenarios some are putting forth, politics will become essentially irrelevant, because there won't be enough people left -- if any -- to do politics.
Nota bene: Huge methane explosions likely occurred during the Permian-Triassic extinction event, but the main factor in that had to have been the vast flood basalt eruptions that took place in Siberia at that time. Those eruptions went on and on for up to a million years, pouring out enormous amounts of toxic gases such as hydrogen sulfide, along with countless megatons of carbon dioxide and water, which are greenhouse gases. The greenhouse gases from those eruptions drove temperatures worldwide up and up, and as temperatures rose, methane clathrates in deep ocean beds began to melt out and erupt in fiery bursts that contributed to the horror, as well. But those methane explosions weren't the primary cause of the End-Permian Catastrophe; that was those flood basalt eruptions. For more on that, see, e.g., Dr. Peter D. Ward's Under a Green Sky (and follow up by checking out relevant references in my LiveJoural posts on such subjects).
Nota bene: Huge methane explosions likely occurred during the Permian-Triassic extinction event, but the main factor in that had to have been the vast flood basalt eruptions that took place in Siberia at that time. Those eruptions went on and on for up to a million years, pouring out enormous amounts of toxic gases such as hydrogen sulfide, along with countless megatons of carbon dioxide and water, which are greenhouse gases. The greenhouse gases from those eruptions drove temperatures worldwide up and up, and as temperatures rose, methane clathrates in deep ocean beds began to melt out and erupt in fiery bursts that contributed to the horror, as well. But those methane explosions weren't the primary cause of the End-Permian Catastrophe; that was those flood basalt eruptions. For more on that, see, e.g., Dr. Peter D. Ward's Under a Green Sky (and follow up by checking out relevant references in my LiveJoural posts on such subjects).
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