Interesting the Dr. Schulz would think that. Especially to those of us that have followed Dr. Semiletov's research into the clathrates since 2003. At that time, elevated CH4 in solution in the water, a bit higher than normal amounts in the air above the water. No plumes, and no methane being directly injected into the atmosphere. By 2010, near saturation points for CH4 in the water, plumes with bubbles of CH4 breaking surface tens of meters across. The air above the ocean containing over 100 times the normal amount of CH4.
Now this year Dr. Semiletov and his team of American and Russian scientists observe in an area of only 100 by 100 miles over 100 plumes, many of which were over a kilometer in diameter, injecting methane directly into the atmosphere. And, by satellites observation of the methane over the Arctic Ocean on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, there were likely thousands of these plumes.
The same team has measured an increase in temperatures of the water in the area of as much as 3 C. Yet Dr. Schultz states this has nothing to do with the outgassing witnessed this year?
Yes, it's amazing isn't it. More and more research is showing....wait for it....geologic processes and climate cycles occur over....wait for it a little longer.....CENTURIES if not MILLENIA. Wow, MENSA BOY for someone who claims to have taken two years of college level geology you sure don't grasp the concept of geologic time.