Massive Methane LEAK in Arctic sea - the End is Nigh

That is bad, bad news. Methane is what ancient anaerobic bacteria in the 'dead zones' of the oceans eat, which spew hydrogen sulfide. That will provide them a nigh limitless supply of food, and when bacteria have limitless food...

Well, I was hoping for a while that we could mine the methane hydrates, use them as an energy source. Burning it converts it into CO2, not good, but better than methane and waaaaay better than hydrogen sulfide. But it's too late for that, obviously; no time to ramp up infrastrucure for that now.

So, what are the choices? We could arm subs with powerful lasers and purposely detonate the methane hydrate deposits as they begin to dissociate (melt). That would produce some HUGE explosions. I kinda wonder if that wasn't what caused that Virginia quake. Not sure we have enough subs though. We could use nukes too, and that'd probably burn off the methane more effectively, but has the obvious drawback of needing to nuke most of the coastlines in the northern hemisphere (which is where most methane hydrate deposits are located).

Or we could just let the Earth do her thing, as she has before, and then we end up with a deadly poisonous and explosively flammable atmosphere for the next few million years.

Tough call there.

or the poles work also as filters.

i don;t know but does anyone know ?

A 1km methane leak accounts as 1/510000000

The Earth surface area is 510 million km^2

Assuming there are at least 1000 leaks, and all are about 1km square. That would be 0.0002% of surface area.

Considering the Earths atmosphere 4,200,000,000 cubic km. It would take decades to make the atmosphere explosive.

Rest easy people, this is a non-doom issue atm.

However, should the oceans encounter a globally universal environment where the methane build up is released simultaneously......well, then were in trouble.

with any luck, betelgeuse will induce yellowstone to erupt, which will ignite all the methane, slowing our orbit around the sun so that Toutatis hits us head on!

fingers crossed!

Its so good to see the ole GLP spirit alive and well despite all the many DOOM fails over the years.

gaia cut the cheese.

You don't really grasp the problem. It's the hydrogen sulfide, which is produced when ancient anaerobic bacteria eat methane or biomatter. There is as much methane in the methane hydrates as all the gas and oil reserves on the planet combined. There is also a HUGE amount of biomass in the oceans which - if you hadn't noticed - are ALREADY dying.

There is enough methane and biomass out there to thoroughly poison the atmosphere. Hydrogen sulfide is lethal in 1 part per thousand. One or two breathes and you're history. In lower concentrations it knocks you unconscious, like those 22 Houston students, those 136 Cambodian students, the 5 near Boston, the 60-ish Zappos workers, the family of 5 that sickened in their car in Kentucky this past week, and on and on. Our atmosphere is getting poisoned RIGHT NOW.

It's also a highly flammable gas, and it's heavier than air. Remember those raging Russian fires in 2010? That was also the year the Gulf circulation stalled, making the dead zones grow in size and potency. And now this past year fires all over, from CA to FLA and everywhere in between, and Russia again, and Mexico, and South America, and Australia.

And people are dropping dead from it. 3 corpses found on MSU grounds in a 10-day span of time recently. The guy in the Reno fire who stepped outside to evacuate and immediately dropped dead. The family of four found dead in their pool and bathtub in San Diego. The family of four found dead in their home in the UK last week. It goes on and on and on, corpses everywhere. They're dying in homes all around you, I'm sure, but it looks just like a heart attack, or 'natural causes', and leaves no real trace, no smoking gun, unless the autopsy is done quickly AND the ME knows what to look for - doubtful.

This extinction event has happened before. Here's a science article that ties things together pretty well, though I'm sure the author hoped fervently not to be proven so accurate in his lifetime:

[link to www.scientificamerican.com]

This is why the super-rich are building bunkers in the Himalayas - to minimize dealing with the invisible waves of lethal heavier-than-air gas that is even now building up in our atmosphere.

Oh, as if flammable poison gas wasn't enough to deal with, it's also reacting away our ozone layer, like so: H2S + O3 => H2O + O2 + S. Noticed the Sun getting brighter this past year? Those schoolkids that got 'flash-burned' in Louisiana on an INDOOR field-trip to another school in JANUARY sure noticed. And seals and dolphins are showing up with lesions. That's not from Fukushima. That's from the SUN, as our ozone layer is reacted away to nothing. Noticed all the white buffalos and other albinos, and the four-armed kids, and two-headed turtles and snakes of late? Mutation rates are spiking now, from the increasing UV levels.

Basically, you're gonna need a backup atmosphere, soon.

There is ONE positive here: the unemployment rate should drop as people die off. Well, lo and behold, it just dropped a half point. What was the explanation? That a bunch of people 'unexpectedly dropped out of the work force'. Uh huh, yeah, because they unexpectedly dropped out of BEING ALIVE.

not to mention the methane being released from the Russian permafrost melting in the tundra...not good, much worse than ozone

Methane possible Extermination Level Event (ELE)

History channel mega disasters
[link to www.youtube.com]

when you back a winner son, you back a winner!

I knew all along that the cows were getting framed...
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this THE real doom story that so many at GLP ignore

Blood ocean.

Listen up. This guy is not talking nonsense. I have a degree in Petroleum Engineering and a degree in Geology.

This post contains no bullshit.

That doesn't mean what he says is going to happen. But he is not bullshitting.

I've taken paleobiology and I have worked around H2S.

here is the full Scientific America article just referred to:

[link to www.chicagocleanpower.org]

wonder if theres a connection of methane release to earth cracking up and big increase in volcanic activity or vice versa

now we're getting somewhere.

thanks for scaring the fuck out of me and making me cry for my children

Light it up.

The good thing u die instantly and you don't suffer, thx mother nature.

ah, there we go...a bit of the ole' comic relief.


thanks!

This isn't good doom, because it isn't some off the wall shit that can't happen.... you need to add in aliens, or it being obama's fault to get this thread pinned.

Also we need a date of some sort, give us something to work with here.

also the positive feedback loop effect as more methane released, heating speeds up releasing methane faster, heating faster, rinse, repeat, could go exponential

only way to avoid it is to either cool the sea or remove from seabed n burn/eject into space (lol)

if you do neither its possibly an ELE

no doubt,just hope its one of them (in a few million years it will etc)