Re: Global Warming hits the Eastcoast !

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:59:49 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Rich Grise
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:11:14 -0700, Mark Fergerson wrote:

Actually I worry less about rapid volcanic CO2 releases than things
like deep-ocean methane ice blowoffs. A seaquake releases a few cubic
kilometers of that in say an hour upwind of a populated coast and the
population is non-trivially screwed. This is not alarmist fantasy, it's
actually happened in large, deep inland lakes, killing every
air-breather for kilometers around. That was estimated to be from on the
order of a few cubic _meters_ of methane ice.

Uh, where exactly did this "methane ice" come from?

Thanks,
Rich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_ice



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