"raylopez99" wrote in message
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Based on the consensus you are right Alastair, but keep in mind that
30% of the temperature increase is due to non-manmade causes, says the
IPCC. So if that 30% goes to 50%, then it's fifty-fifty nature vs.
manmade.

The IPCC in fact say that up to 30% of the warming SO FAR was due to
natural causes. As AGW increases that figure will fall, not rise.

As for methane hydrates, if they somehow rise from the bottom of the
sea to outgas at the surface, then it's curtains for us, regardless of
global warming. Same if a rogue meteor strikes the earth. Or a
mega-volcano. Or a global pandemic that's not curable. Or "grey goo
nanotech".

I know less about "grey goo" nanotech than I do about methane
clathrates, however I would like to point out that we are trying to
prevent the bird flu global pandemic, and we are monitoring
the Yellowstone mega-volcano. We are scanning the skies for rogue
meteors with plans to shoot them down, but we are doing nothing about
global warming because it would affect the business interests of the
president of the USA.

Standard Halloween Science Scare Stories. Life will find a way.

Yes, life Ray, but not as we know it.

Cheers, Alastair.