More on that methane bubble in the Gulf of Mexico

[polaris93]

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

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[mr_spock]

You might want to take a look at my most recent blog for an idea of something that can be done about the Gulf disaster, and more. With your background, I'd think that you could do this quite easily and effectively. Of course, I blogged it so all of my friends can be doing it - get everyone on the bandwagon and perhaps we can beat this thing.

[polaris93]

I looked at your blog, couldn't find the post.

There's a problem: I don't know just how bad the Gulf situation really is, because of the damn news blackout. I mean, given my special interests, I can try Tarot readings, the I Ching, and horary astrology, but I've been a student of the sciences since I was 7 years old, and I trust scientific data far more than anything I get from divination on something like this. Some of what I've found online doesn't sound all that plausible, for various reasons, and some of what is reported contradicts other reports. But no matter what, it looks as if there's something like two hundred cubic miles of methane under extreme pressure building up underneath the Gulf of Mexico, getting ready to blow. This is apparently due to the heating caused by the outflow of oil from the rent in the floor of the Gulf caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which was coming out at a temperature of some 500 degrees Celsius (now that they've stopped the outflow, it's just sitting there, still that hot, heating