The mystery of Siberia’s exploding craters

The Beeb can discuss that but it can’t report on this, which seems potentially much more significant?

What is happening in the Arctic [Ocean] is that the massive amount of stored subsurface methane — in all the forms that bound it — is now being warmed sufficiently to allow it to overcome the cold and pressure that used to hold it in. So there is an increasing rate of methane gas bubbling up from the seafloor, and from the Arctic tundra which is permafrost grassland that is thawing, slumping, and popping out with methane eruption craters, some tens of meters in diameter and depth.

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