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[Moontanman]

Methane Cathrates, it sounds like a disease that Preparation H should cure. Methane cathrates have been a concern of mine since I saw evidence that huge amounts of MC could be the cause of loosing ships in the Bermuda Trianglethis was in the early 80's. I started looking and found evidence that massive bubbles of MC have been erupting in historical times from the ocean bottom just off shore of where I live. In the North Atlantic there are huge holes in the ocean bottom thought to be the result of huge releases of MC. Methane is a super greenhouse gas and it consumes oxygen as well. Greenhouse warming could release so much of this gas it could change the very composition of our atmosphere and make it difficult to breath not to mention hot enough to make it difficult to live. This has been one of the reasons I am so rabidly pro nuclear power. No matter how you explain global warming the increase in temps threatens to release megatons of MC and this could indeed end our civilization. We as a civilization need to take steps to mitigate this problem. It probably wouldn't end life on Earth but it does have the power to end human life on earth.