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Frozen methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm – and things are worse than we thought
(theconversation.com)
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Click bait news always annoys me. You aren't going die anytime soon. I've talked to people who a literally stressed all the time because of headlines like this.
It's profitable to keep an audience in a state of constant fear so they keep checking to make see if it's sorted itself out. Then the 2-week news cycle happens, and the old fear is replaced by a new fear.
Climate change isn't going to end humanity, but it will change our living conditions. And so what? Humans are excellent at adapting to their environment. The ice age didn't doom humanity.
I feel like the current concerns tend to get way overblown out of proportion. Remember that world-ending solar flare that keeps making the rounds every couple months? Still waiting for that to materialize. Fearmongering is so cringe and yet so many people fall for it.
It's a problem anyway, but not in the way the article says it is, ever heard of Storegga slide? Methane clathrates hold much of continental shelves together, if they fall well gonna get pretty big tsunamis
I think more people die in car related deaths than Tsunamis. You are focusing on the unlikely and then spending tons of time pondering it. Its unhealthy and leads to poor mental health.
Tsunamis nowadays come from earth quakes, potential tsunamis from underwater slides, despite it's low probability would kill millions in coastal areas, but yeah, maybe I'm paranoid because I've read The Swarm by Frank Schätzing,
I mean still it's a widely accepted and real concept