Earth`s Breath

The mass of organic carbon in sedimentary basins amounts to a staggering 10¹⁶ tons, dwarfing the mass contained in coal, oil, gas and all living systems by ten thousand-fold. The changing fate of this giant mass in a dynamic earth, via chemical, physical and biological processes, is known to ultimately control fossil energy resource occurrence worldwide.

What has been overlooked and/or ignored until recently is its enormous capacity for driving global climate: only a tiny degree of leakage, particularly when focussed through gas hydrates, can result in high greenhouse gas emissions. 

Mud volcanoes are one of many locations where methane is released to the atmosphere