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John Beardmore wrote:
In message , Alastair McDonald
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When you predict that the end of the world (as we know it) is coming
then you are labelled as a crackpot (or a Chicken Little)-!

Which is fine until the sky falls !

I first heard about methane clathrates was about five years ago,

You should have hung out with more chemists !

Or glaciologists (et al.). I was peripherally involved in a paper
on the release of methane clathrates due to the depressurization
caused by the removal of the Laurentide ice sheet -- in 1987.
Methane clathrates were known to the climate community well before 2000.

--
Robert Grumbine http://www.radix.net/~bobg/ Science faqs and amateur activities notes and links.
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too much
evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than they
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New Sciences