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Polar melting: 'Methane time bomb' isn't a 'bomb'
- anigbrowl 8y agoThis is a bad article. It presents rational uncertainty about the phenomenon as debunking and equates the distance and rate of future events with a decrease in severity. I've never seen an article or news report on methane release that didn't point out the idea of a bomb was a metaphor and referred to the suddenness on geological timescales, while also describing it as a continuous process that would take place some decades int he future. It's as if someone looking at footage of the California town destroyed in the wildfires said it looked like the impact of a bomb, and then this author showed to say 'actually it just burned to the ground.'