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I wonder how much gas is released in these events and the implications on global warming.

• mindcrash 12y ago
  There is tons of carbon based gas (such as methane) trapped beneath the ice which will be released into the atmosphere. Gas which was trapped down there about 50 million years ago when a weed infestation erupted and by way of chemical reaction turned a mostly carbon-based atmosphere into a mostly oxygen-based one. Implication on global warming? I'm going to up that one a little bit with Chemistry 101: what happens when C, H and O will react with each other on a truely massive scale. And I mean truely massive scale. Here's a small hint: The human species will certainly become the next dinosaurs. Or in the words of climate scientist Jason Box: "If even a small fraction of Arctic sea floor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we're f'd." (https://twitter.com/climate_ice/status/494146188514693120 https://twitter.com/climate_ice/status/494146188514693120)