“First, the probability of this pulse happening is high, at least 50 percent according to the analysis of sediment composition by those best placed to know what is going on, Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov. Moreover, if it happens, the detrimental effects are gigantic… the risk of an Arctic seabed methane pulse is one of the greatest immediate risks facing the human race… Why then are we doing nothing about it? Why is this risks ignored by climate scientists, and scarcely mentioned in the latest IPCC assessment? It seems to be not just climate change deniers who wish to conceal the Arctic methane threat, but also many Arctic scientists, including so-called ‘methane experts.” (Peter Wadhams, pg. 127-28)
(the above quote is from a CounterPunch article on a growing apocalyptic climate event.
the image used for this post is of methane gas bubbling up at the East Siberian Sea)
here is a pdf to download the book, Farewell to Ice, on the methane threat posed by melting arctic ice written by Cambridge scientist Peter Wadhams….