stick a dome over it
May. 8th, 2010 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutWell, that plan is not working, altho BP hasn't given up on it yet.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0817889720100508
They can keep calling the problem "methane ice" or slush or methane hydrate all they like. It's what I fear from Fred Pearce's book _With Speed and Violence_, however: a massive, near term additional source of greenhouse gas called methane clathrate.
Have we made it out of the first reel of this disaster movie yet? I'm sure hoping it's a Hollywood production so someone gets a happy ending. If it's an indy, it may yet wind up being the end of the world.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0817889720100508
They can keep calling the problem "methane ice" or slush or methane hydrate all they like. It's what I fear from Fred Pearce's book _With Speed and Violence_, however: a massive, near term additional source of greenhouse gas called methane clathrate.
Have we made it out of the first reel of this disaster movie yet? I'm sure hoping it's a Hollywood production so someone gets a happy ending. If it's an indy, it may yet wind up being the end of the world.