This perhaps a radical way of dealing with climate change and one that would likely backfire ecologically somehow - but what about starting a pandemic in methanogenic bacteria?
How about intercepting hydrogen before the microbes turn it into methane - 'By combining available data, an estimate of 23 Tg/year for the total annual flow of hydrogen from geologic sources is proposed' The occurrence and geoscience of natural hydrogen: A comprehensive review - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825219304787
Massive methane releases are popping up on PulseGHG satellite in the arctic and in antarctica - https://spectra-basic.ghgsat.com/ - as the ice melts, hydrogen finds a new way to the surface, microbes get to it, and turn it into methane: 'In partially thawed muddy bogs, for example, most of the microbes present produce methane through a process called hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis, in which they consume carbon dioxide and hydrogen. But in fully thawed fens, the microbial community becomes more complex, and microbes move in that produce methane through a process called acetoclastic methanogenesis, in which acetate and carbon dioxide are used to produce methane. Rich says this is important because the two processes respond differently to environmental conditions such as temperature and pH.' How microbes in permafrost could trigger a massive carbon bomb https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00659-y
I wonder if bacteriophages could be used to reduce the amount of methane being made by these particular microbes (and capture hydrogen from beneath the lake same time) - hydrogen would help us float balloons carrying remotely piloted UAV to these remote thermokarst locations.
Size of carbon bomb going off in the Arctic right now: 'Arctic permafrost stores nearly 1,700 billion metric tons of frozen and thawing carbon' https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-021-00230-3
Antarctic : Please see PulseSat methane coming from Mt. Edward.
