Ice Fire, Fire Ice

If you have the inclination, bone up on methane clathrates.



And then: the Compleat Idiocy™ of nuking the Gulf oil eruption should come into sharper focus. A case where politics, and the pressure to appear "pro-active," could quite literally kill off a large number of us.

Hip hip huzzah for the appearance of democracy, for the verisimilitude of the Spectacle as "participatory politics." For the polling response to depositioned poles.

In staving off public pressure, our overlords may find themselves tempted to do their worst.

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UPDATE:

Also, see already massive methane eruption, accompanying the oil gusher.

h/t Corrente, for that one

UPDATE 5ish pm:

Singularity, also on topic.