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What is the likelihood of our precipitating a "methane gun" event?

• PeterisP 9y ago
  100% ? IIRC we might have prevented it with serious changes a couple years ago, but now it's going to happen and is already happening.
  • stcredzero 9y ago
    If that's true, then my understanding is that 4 degrees of warming is inevitable, and 5 degrees is likely. 6 degrees probably isn't ruled out.
    • Diederich 9y ago
      Do you have children? I have a teenage son. A heretofore normal lifespan for him will bring him to the late 21st century. I can hardly think about what things will be like then.
      • saalweachter 9y ago
        When my daughter is the age of my grandmother, it will be the 22nd century.
        • Diederich 9y ago
          That's incredibly sobering.
          • saalweachter 9y ago
            ... and I'll probably be 20 years in the grave.
  • rsrcht12414 9y ago
    https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4uus54/how_worried_should_we_be_about_the_clathrate_gun/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4uus54/how_worr... FWIW, the folks in askscience say that the research as of one year ago does not suggest any catastrophic clathrate gun that would actually be triggered by current rates of warming.