Gulf Oil Spill = Doomsday?

[Navalius]

Hey all, new member here with his first topic.

 

I saw this one article on the Web that made me a tad concerned.

 

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/12/doomsday-could-bp-spill-kill-all-life-on-earth/

 

Is there any validity to that?

 

Theres also another article within that, which debunks the theory. Theres a link to it in the article posted above but I can post it here if you can find it.

 

Cheers.

 

-Navalius

[AzurePhoenix]

I'm morbidly a fan of the clathrate gun hypothesis... but that version really goes out on a sensationalist limb. Not that it couldn't still happen, but if it did, it'd probably be in the arctic ocean. Alot've semi-stable methane buried down there under a lot less rock and water, kept more in check by a permafrost cap than by immense pressures, and already spilling out in large amounts.

 

What I truly fear is that the Taliban will catch wind of this and be inspired to begin raising vast legions of methaney cows in a final insidious bid to destroy us once and for all...