[ExI] peak fossil by 2020

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 09:10:55AM -0700, spike wrote:

> The reason I do not worry about spontaneous clathrate conversion is that the

Most of clathrates are in the shelf. It's the pressure and the cold
that keeps the champaigne from uncorking itself.

http://updatednews.ca/2011/12/14/giant-plumes-of-methane-bubbling-to-surface-of-arctic-ocean/

If we play this game right we might even pull an 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event

But they typically only last about half a megayear.

> thermal mass of the ocean is enormous.  Water has a lot of heat capacity for
> its mass.  The calculations on that notion are pretty straightforward: it
> would take centuries to warm the depths even 1 degree celcius under any
> scenario I can imagine.  Have you any sample calcs to suggest otherwise?