Re:Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing
by ChuckMcM on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:41PM
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Not to pick on you but this is the sort of question that click baity articles generate because they don't actually explain the context, only the scary bits.
Unless you are living on the permafrost then you won't see a problem. When people and livestock have been killed by sudden outpouring of gas it has been in situations where something else constrained the mixing with the regular atmosphere, or if you are in the path of the dumping of a large gas reservoir[2].
Generally the dumping of these gasses back into the atmosphere will not be the thing that kills you.
Unless you are living on the permafrost then you won't see a problem. When people and livestock have been killed by sudden outpouring of gas it has been in situations where something else constrained the mixing with the regular atmosphere, or if you are in the path of the dumping of a large gas reservoir[2].
Generally the dumping of these gasses back into the atmosphere will not be the thing that kills you.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster