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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Will human life be wiped out by a BP-induced methane eruption? No.


I'd have to say this is a regular conversation with people I know...this only semi-eases my concern.
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Let's just get this out of the way now: The BP oil disaster, while horrible in innumerable ways, is not literally the end of the world.
If you've spent any considerable length of time on the Internet lately — and not just its dark conspiratorial alleys — you may have run across a number of geological reports that read like the plot of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie: BP may have haphazardly tapped into a violent reservoir of methane gas deep below Earth's surface, possibly setting off a chain of events that could lead to release of a "methane mega-bubble"capable of triggering floods of biblical proportions and emitting poisons into the atmosphere, effectively wiping humans off the face of the Earth.
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