[LINK] the weather makers

grove at zeta.org.au grove at zeta.org.au
Mon Apr 9 00:55:58 AEST 2007


On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Kim Holburn wrote:

> Yes it has happened a couple of times apparently.  The most recent was the 
> clathrate release 55 million years ago.  That was when a huge amount of 
> clathrates - frozen methane was released into the atmosphere and it marks the 
> boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene and is an enormous extinction event.


Hmmmm, carbon sequestration is just putting off the inevitable then.....


rachel

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