As always a great post. A lot to chew on. I didn’t bother with the Dr. Tim Ball video as I am well aware of his denial and religious agenda. However, when you say that if we go over the “climate cliff” “that we will plunge into an abyss of impacts that we cannot reverse.” you don’t realize how important that statement is. A Permian level extinction even is, I would say, irreversible…http://arctic-news.blogspot.co.uk/p/global-extinction-within-one-human.html… Professor Guy McPherson sums it up nice (if one can even use that word in the context of the issue) in a speech that he is giving to anyone who cares to hear this very ugly truth…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ina16XSJQvM…leave your stomach behind as you watch lest you lose your most recent meal.

THEN, get busy writing to the president, the senate, the house, the joint chiefs and anyone else who might be able to make something happen. If we fail to address the methane issue we will have already passed the tipping point that leads to humanities extinction, I may be coming off here as an ALARMIST, but the science is sound and ALARM BELLS should be clanging as loud as to be heard on the moon.

Light’s (and he is no lightweight in climate science) admonition’s are clear and concise. While the world has already shown it’s reluctance to abandon fossil fuels we can at least try to mitigate the methane issue to buy whatever time that it will. With the stakes now risen to astronomical levels I can see no other option. We have been gambling with Mother Nature (not to mention insulting her..see the Post Carbons Institute’s book>Energy<) and she has now gone "all in" and is patiently waiting to see if we will call her bet. Following is M.Light's instructions.

{Developed (and some developing) countries must cut back their carbon dioxide emissions by a very large percentage (50% to 90%) by 2020 to immediately precipitate a cooling of the Earth and its crust. If this is not done the earthquake frequency and methane emissions in the Arctic will continue to grow exponentially leading to our inexorable demise in 2038 to 2050.

Geo-engineering must be used immediately as a cooling method in the Arctic to counteract the effects of the methane buildup in the short term. However, these methods will lead to further pollution of the atmosphere in the long term and will not solve the earthquake induced Arctic methane buildup which is going to lead to our annihilation.

The United States and Russia must immediately develop a net of powerful radio beam frequency transmission stations around the Arctic using the critical 13.56 MHZ beat frequency to break down the methane in the stratosphere and troposphere to nano-diamonds and hydrogen (Light 2011a) . Besides the elimination of the high global warming potential methane, the nano-diamonds may form seeds for light reflecting noctilucent clouds in the stratosphere and a light colored energy reflecting layer when brought down to the Earth by snow and rain (Light 2011a). HAARP transmission systems are able to electronically vibrate the strong ionospheric electric current that feeds down into the polar areas and are thus the least evasive method of directly eliminating the buildup of methane in those critical regions (Light 2011a).}

Sorry to be the bearer of this news but to solve a problem you first must know that a problem exists.

Edward Kerr 12-17-2012