Diss,
You were part of the ESAS bomb crowd that predicted imminent mass gas release. You had no basis for your gut feelings.
Ward buys into the instant extinction from the impactor theory. He says nothing about the thick layers of pink limestone that overlap the thin irridium layer. The anoxic regime is a CH4 and H2S emission regime associated with warming of the oceans and not with any cooling, as opposed to the regular CO2 emission regime. For both regimes the process is remineralization of detritus rain. So life does not shut down in the upper ocean layer, which remains oxic.
Dear Diss, I wish it were different,
Mass gas release is not imminent but ongoing as we speak/write.
Seasurface temperatures have been spiking, like our changing climate, abruptly.
Look at he data, 12 degrees F above normal, the already warm, heated 1981-2011 period. 2700 ppb methane anomaly......
ESAS with an avarage dept of 50 meters means seabed warms up as well.
Shakova has done temp measurements to dept of water/seabed/relic permafrost.
Warm current headed Northwest is not a surface thing alone, a massive volume like that does not spread like oil on water.Maybe sweet water spreads like a thin layer on the surface like melt from GIS.
http://arctic-news.blogspot.nl/The image on the right shows warm water from the North Atlantic arriving near Svalbard. How warm is the water beneath the surface of the Arctic Ocean? The image below gives an indication, showing how much warmer the water was from October 1, 2017, to December 30, 2017, at selected areas near Svalbard, where warm water from the North Atlantic dives under the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean, carried by the Gulf Stream.
I read Wards Under a green skye a decade ago, thought he made the case that 4 out of the past 5 extinctions were climate driven and not by alien rock banging mother Earth. Could be wrong on that but it looks pretty grim on the methane issue, I'd love to see a different outcome so please do your best to make me see that the ESAS is as stable as it has been for a million years or so.
At least the upcoming 50 years so I can roam this Earth with infrastructures intact.
Love to drive
Tanada, that Guy Mcph. is teaching to accept our fate, our death as a personal affair, to live with this knowledge everyday, to let go of hope, fear etc.
To use death as an advisor to make the right choices now, this moment and feelings which is all we have, freedom to live now, to let go of past and future.
Ooh, on that piece of crab, I bet they taste great!
Seafood is easier to catch then hunting , trapping and gathering.