[Bret L]

Either way, we need to address
the issue right now. There is deep concern that the release of methane from
permafrost areas will cause global warming to become unmanageable. Methane
is a more powerful GHG than CO2.



I've got news for you, if it happens, it was 95% the doing of nature
anyway and there isn't **** we are going to do to stop it.

We'd be better off to figure how we could get the methane out and use
it for powering stuff on a controlled basis.

Human activity is just not going to cause major changes on the earth.
it might retard or accelerate them a tiny amount, but even that is
like a flea with a hard-on lying on its back floating downriver and
yelling, "Open the drawbridge!". We just are not that powerful.