Reply #18: My first impression from the headline was that this was the beginning of a nightmare...

[kristopher]

One of the biggest threats looming on the climate change front is, in fact, the vast amount of methane that is sitting on the floors of the worlds oceans locked into ice structures. The fossil companies have been looking at this for a couple of decades and recovery hasn't been economical. When I saw the header my first thought was that they'd set their sights on these methane hydrates, and if they do, we're screwed on the climate change front. If warming continues though it won't matter because it will be released naturally. It is the potential knock-out punch in the global warming book of nightmares.

The existence of this "resource" means that the concept of a peak caused by resource depletion simply isn't in the cards for natural gas. There are economic constraints, but there is, unfortunately, not a depletion of resources anywhere on the horizon.