As fate would have it, 5 years post Katrina I flew into New Orleans. That was April 20th 2010. The local news was lit up with a disaster going on one of the oil rigs, the story had not made national news yet. Yes, Macondo well was mentioned. The national story evolved over to the Deep Water Horizon rig. Things were being handled from the beginning. Those of you who remember the event know the CT that I'm alluding to. But that is only one angle.
Another piece of the puzzle that was squashed quickly was the Clathrate Gun hypothesis. Here it is on Wiki
en.wikipedia.org
The
clathrate gun hypothesis is a proposed explanation for the periods of rapid warming during the
Quaternary. The hypothesis is that changes in fluxes in upper intermediate waters in the ocean caused temperature fluctuations that alternately accumulated and occasionally released
methane clathrate on upper continental slopes. This would have had an immediate impact on the global temperature, as
methane is a much more powerful
greenhouse gas than
carbon dioxide. Despite its atmospheric lifetime of around 12 years, methane's
global warming potential is 72 times greater than that of carbon dioxide over 20 years, and 25 times over 100 years (33 when accounting for
aerosol interactions).
[1] It is further proposed that these warming events caused the
Bond Cycles and individual
interstadial events, such as the
Dansgaard–Oeschger interstadials.
[2]
The hypothesis was supported for the
Bølling–Allerød warming and
Preboreal periods, but not for
Dansgaard–Oeschger interstadials,
[3] although there are still debates on the topic.
[4] While it may be important on the millennial timescales,
[5][6] it is no longer considered relevant for the near future
climate change: the
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report states "It is very unlikely that gas clathrates (mostly methane) in deeper terrestrial permafrost and subsea clathrates will lead to a detectable departure from the emissions trajectory during this century".
Methane clathrate, also known commonly as methane
hydrate, is a form of water ice that contains a large amount of methane within its crystal structure. Potentially large deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of the Earth, although the estimates of total resource size given by various experts differ by many orders of magnitude, leaving doubt as to the size of methane clathrate deposits (particularly in the viability of extracting them as a fuel resource). Indeed, cores of greater than 10 centimeters' contiguous depth had only been found in three sites as of 2000, and some resource reserve size estimates for specific deposits/locations have been based primarily on seismology.
[8][9] The sudden release of large amounts of natural gas from methane clathrate deposits in
runaway climate change could be a cause of past, future, and present climate changes.
So in a nutshell, methane clathrate is a little ice crystal of methane found on the ocean floor. Once it warms up to 33 degrees Fahrenheit it explodes instantly to ~100% it's size. Since 2013 the Japanese have been mining it for the Natural Gas content.
The clathrate gun hypothesis basically states once the explosion of the crystals start, methane gas is so volatile that the explosions keep going till the soil/water runs out. This heats up earth.
The Deep Water Horizon Well some say hit a pocket of the clathrate crystal, and the methane gas ignited everything in it's area all at once. Luckily the waters were cold enough to contain it to the single well. This is no longer the case.
Now for some reason God has kicked this information up for me to process in light with what is coming up. The Gulf of Mexico is riddled with the methane crystals. Since the GOM is warming up, potential for the water to burn is there. The same thing can happen on land, Siberia's pot holes are an example of this.
View: https://youtu.be/uN-C8wPMxjg
We are going into unchartered territory. amen