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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: Ilaine who wrote (5193)6/22/2001 5:21:24 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
I must have missed that one. But I got the IMAX Galapogos flick.... pretty cool.

And we didn't get much rain inside the beltway last night... just a bit of a lightshow around midnight.

Thanks for the article though. Wanniski's comments on CO2 are right on the money, IMO. And no one ever mentions those nasty methane pumping termites.

But there is no doubt that methane is probably a more significant green-house gas than CO2. And there literally gadzillions of cubic metric feet of it locked up in Methane Hydrates under the ocean floor. This stuff is like frozen sterno, which you can light on fire in its solid state.

Were these methane hydrates to suddenly melt in a major way, due to some shift in the ocean temperatures, it could create a rather big planetary *"outgassing"* into the atmosphere, and tremendous social upheaval as millions of people start flinging accusations around as to who "let 'er rip"... :0)

That could lead to social disintegration all by itself, as well as a tremendous surge sales of perfumes and air fresheners.

Btw, there is evidence that a methane hydrate deposit did melt sometime near the end of the last ice age (coincidence?) up near Norway, and since methane has 10 times the effect of CO2, and lacks a ready source of absorption (like plants), that does have me a bit worried.

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What's more scary is that if such a methane hydrate can occur naturally, what can we do to prevent it?

Mankind is not what I fear. Nothing we can do compares to the self-destruction that Mother Nature can wreak.

Hawk
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