For queries: I had a photocopy of Nisbet article, but one oil woman stole my library, she trapped me to Norway promising huge expedition funds, then said she wants to study ... and the rest of that library is history. My copies vanished.. For Euan Nisbet's article can get it via British Library, make an Interlibrary loan request, or access to that journal in any well equipped university library. If all else fails, you can contact Euan Nisbet.
The reference to 750 km2 methane crater appeared in one New Scientist article before 2010 which I don't remember (= a lesson to be learnt of my bad habit of not referencing). Google seems to bring up my own references. Natalia's point refuting New Scientist and their "experts" is right - they do not know what they are talking about. In layman's terms they are just talking bulls*ht. That can be proven here, just see page 143 and their argument melts like butter in sunshine: http://dgbes.com/images/PDF/Ligtenberg_BasinResearch.pdf The constant flux of gas pressure in subsea sediments acts like fracking - creating its own conduits though which water can pour in and methane ice melts in the soils tunnelled by these breathing apparatuses of methane that occasionally then bust their way out to the surface of seafloor. Storegga slide also occurred due to weakening of permafrost sealing of the sea floor after the ending of the Ice Ages - that was leading to formation of crevasses and ruptures within the frozen seabed sediments. Sadly, New Scientist is drifting to imbalanced debate much like the global warming denialist community. I think they could have researched a bit more... or may be they wanted to be just a bit provocative, but what's the point in that - haven't we had enough provocations from the 'fossil fuel science' fanatics? Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 22:30:15 +0200 Subject: NewScientist: Methane apocalypse? Defusing the Arctic's time bomb From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Dear Albert, I have read your last pst on the geoengineering group and I agree with you. I have no acess to the paper you cite. Can you provide me a copy please? Nisbet, Euan. G.: "Have sudden large releases of methane from geological reservoirs occurred since the Last Glacial Maximum, and could such releases occur again?", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 360, 1793, p. 581-607. 15 Apr 2002. http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/360/1793/581 Many thanks Best reards Renaud http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032113008460 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
