"The world may not be able to limit global temperature rise to safe levels if new international climate action is not taken by 2017, as so many fossil fuel power plants and factories are being built, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday." (reuters)
Ok, let’s see what happens next, we have an example in world history, the end permian extinction.
Royal Dutch Extinction
Shell wants to drill for deep ocean gas, and hopefully scrape the clathrate (frozen gas layers) from the bottom. This already creates problems because the release is not easily controlled in the harsh deep ocean environment. Ships like the below are build and will be essential to profit from this, but as the image below that of the ship reveals, energy industry experts are willing to take the risk. In our names?
It could also ship solar thermal systhetic methane from Africa to Europe
A fossil feul industry expert commenter on Linkedin, I can reveal his name but won’t here, left below comment (second paragraph) on natural gas hydrates, or clathrate gas :
