Comment on “A Persistent Oxygen Anomaly Reveals the Fate of Spilled Methane in the Deep Gulf of Mexico”
Abstract
Kessler et al . (Reports, 21 January 2011, p. 312) reported that methane released from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, approximately 40% of the total hydrocarbon discharge, was consumed quantitatively by methanotrophic bacteria in Gulf of Mexico deep waters over a 4-month period. We find the evidence explicitly linking observed oxygen anomalies to methane consumption ambiguous and extension of these observations to hydrate-derived methane climate forcing premature.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- May 27, 2011
- Source ID
- 10.1126/science.1203307
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- Andreas P. Teske
- Christof D. Meile
- David Hollander
- Evan Solomon
- Gregor Rehder
- Ian R. Macdonald
- Ira Leifer
- Jeffery P. Chanton
- Joel E. Kostka
- Joseph P. Montoya
- Ludmila Chistoserdova
- Miriam Kastner
- Richard Coffin
- Samantha B. Joye
- Tina Treude
- Tracy A. Villareal
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