Methane Hydrates

DISCLAIMER — Real Science, No Framework Bridge, Explicitly NOT Alarmist

Why no UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge: not only because the cited literature already provides the necessary quantitative structure -- a deliberate choice. This project's highly speculative AFET/UTAC experiments must never stand in the way of climate/ecology topics being accessible and usable to people who don't work inside that construct and aren't looking for renormalization groups. Real, checkable science, without the burden of an unproven framework. See PACKAGE_REGISTRY.md's "Why no UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge in the climate/ecology series" (2026-08-31) in the GenesisAeon workspace root for the full canonical note.

Status: Real, verified science + NO UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge + explicit rejection of the "clathrate gun" scenario

What this is

• Methane hydrates are ice-like solids trapping methane in a
• water-molecule lattice, stable within specific pressure-temperature
• windows in permafrost and deep marine sediments.
• Ruppel & Kessler (2017, Reviews of Geophysics 55, 126-168), the field's
• authoritative review: the global hydrate carbon inventory is estimated
• at ~1800 GtC, of which only ~3.5% (~63 GtC, shallow marine systems) is
• positioned to respond to ocean warming even on a centennial
• timescale. Most deposits are buried deeply enough to remain stable for
• centuries or more under most future-warming scenarios.
• Hong et al. (2017, Nature Communications 8, 15745): direct empirical
• evidence from a highly warming-susceptible Arctic site (offshore
• Svalbard) shows short-term ocean warming has limited impact on hydrate
• stability — a response requires warming sustained over centuries, not
• a brief warming episode.

What this is explicitly NOT

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methane-hydrates-utac

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GenesisAeon Package 92 — real methane hydrate destabilization science. Deliberately has no UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge, and explicitly rejects the "clathrate gun" scenario — see DISCLAIMER.md.

For a plain-language explanation of the same topic (German, no jargon, written for general audiences), see WHITEPAPER.md.

What's real here

• Ruppel & Kessler (2017, Reviews of Geophysics): global hydrate carbon
• inventory ~1800 GtC; only ~3.5% (~63 GtC, shallow marine) can respond
• to warming even on a centennial timescale.
• Hong et al. (2017, Nature Communications): direct field evidence that
• short-term ocean warming has limited impact on hydrate stability.
• Explicitly NOT the "clathrate gun hypothesis" — see
• DISCLAIMER.md.

Quickstart

bash pip install methane-hydrates-utac

```python from methane_hydrates_utac import is_plausible_release_timescale

print(is_plausible_release_timescale(20)) # False -- too fast, not supported by evidence print(is_plausible_release_timescale(150)) # True -- centennial-scale, consistent with the literature ```

Development

bash pip install -e ".[dev]" pre-commit install ruff check src tests mypy src pytest

Citation

See CITATION.cff and .zenodo.json.