Leviathan wakes. Nice know you, kids.

We're screwed.

So, Earth farts then?

We're boned!

what--is there something like a bunch of cattle beneath the sea releasing all this methane?

and how did the cattle get there?

boil like a pot, eh?

BONG THREAD!!!

johndalek: what--is there something like a bunch of cattle beneath the sea releasing all this methane?

and how did the cattle get there?

never heard of sea cows?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cow

Our underground alien overlords grow tired of us...or perhaps they have discovered the McRib.

Why is this astonishing, again?

Game over, man. Game over.

Don't worry. Capitalism will save us.

Seriously, though?

We. Are. farked.

Remember 2012 is coming! It will be the year that the global warming tipping point is reached and mass extinction of the human race will begin. Then after millions of years a new race of Mon Chi Chi will arise, of so soft and cuddly.

Shocked ?

I read predictions that this would happen years ago.

This is why we need to lower taxes.

When some of that stuff ignites, the following blast might convince somebody that somebody else launched a nuclear first strike.

I am releasing some deadly gas right now so I am getting a kick ...

So just get someone out there with a Bic lighter and problem solved, right?

RIGHT?

Methane killed my father.

illegal.tender: Don't worry. Capitalism will save us.

I'm building a bunker out gold bullion right now

So you've decided to have a kid huh ?

I like the Russian Scientist's take on it:

"Earlier we found torch-like structures like this but they were only tens of metres in diameter. This is the first time that we've found continuous, powerful and impressive seeping structures, more than 1,000 metres in diameter. It's amazing," Dr Semiletov said. "I was most impressed by the sheer scale and high density of the plumes. Over a relatively small area we found more than 100, but over a wider area there should be thousands of them. Of course, this means we're all going to die. But it's really impressive!"

Wonder if this is what caused mass extinctions way back when. Massive amounts of trapped gas was released and killed everything in its path until it dissipated. Kinda like that Bhopal disaster. Wonder what the path of the ginourmous earth-fart would be?

This is the same thing that has been happening off the coast of Florida for a long time. Been blamed for bringing down aircraft

johndalek: what--is there something like a bunch of cattle beneath the sea releasing all this methane?

and how did the cattle get there?

Turtles, actually. All the way down.

and gas for heating will be free from now on?

Michio Kaku has said that the most dangerous period in any planetary civilization is making it from a type 0 civilization to a type 1 planetary civilization.

He said we it would be about another 100 years before we make it to type 1.

( if we make it )

BigNumber12: I won't be concerned until millions of squishy crabs come ashore in New York, and lobsters start exploding in Paris.


/ obscure?

That was a good book-- makes me glad I'm not too close to the coast, though--

Slaves2Darkness: Remember 2012 is coming! It will be the year that the global warming tipping point is reached and mass extinction of the human race will begin. Then after millions of years a new race of Mon Chi Chi will arise, of so soft and cuddly.

Today in media sensationalization,

Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas...

Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane - a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

Stay tuned for information that could save your life!

BronyMedic: Good job, Climate Change Denialists. You've farked us all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

Nobody did any farking here unless it's mother Earth and she's an angry, horny MILF.

meat0918: Bob16: Shocked ?

I read predictions that this would happen years ago.

Same here. But this time around, we have science.

As it gets worse, it'll really, really suck.

//I can has city-sized air filters?

Yeah this is just the beginning of methane release. There is a whole shiat load more that will escape as the melting continues. Unless they figure out a way to stop it.

Reminds me of this, only this was CO2:
Lake Nyos disaster (new window)

And there will be a grrrreaaat rubbing of parts....

Russian sailors like to smoke on deck too...