Heck I've even seen TV programmes where they set fire to russian lakes. Which actually may be a good idea in the long term. that or harvest the stuff. keep to the Fen Causeway
Do you mean as actually happening rather than predicted, and do you mean oceanic methane [the vast bulk of methane potewntially released]? Can you find sources? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I meant both permafrost capped methane as well as the oceanic stuff.
As to sources, jeez.....I thought it was common knowledge. I just googled permafrost methane and got a lot of hits going back a while. Undersea Methane hydrate is an issue as well, usually used as an explanation for ship losses in the "Bermuda Triangle". there are also similar phenomena in the North Sea called "Witching holes" keep to the Fen Causeway
But it's not that methane releases would ever go back to zero. Note that there are opposed trends: methane itself will fall apart in reactions in the atmosphere, with the carbon in it usualy ending up in CO2; while via microbes munching on ocean-absorbed CO2, methane gets back into clathrates.
So what we are talking about is a significant tip of the balance, a greatly increased rate of methane releases. A few years back, there was a(n I believe British) study saying that methane release from moors is increasing across the world (don't know if and how well it held up against peer review, will have to look up), so I thought you meant that. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
