Game Over? Or Overtime?

Click here to access article by Albert Bates from his blog The Great Change (UK). 

...an international group of scientists, the Arctic Methane Emergency Group has been sailing into the Arctic waters around Norway and Russia to take samples of methane bubbling from ocean clathrates — frozen methane deposits on the sea floor.

...The preliminary reports, if they can be believed, are frightening.

In case you weren't frightened by this, he has more bad news about all the effects of fracking.

Another significant contributor to atmospheric methane is fracking — the explosive fracturing of geological formations to release oil and natural gas (see illustration). While difficult to quantify, we can expect a significant bump from this source for at least the next few decades, just from wells already completed. And once the bottle is uncorked, you can’t put another cork back in.