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The Clathrate Gun hypothesis is not plausible. Recent research basically disproves it.

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The “Current Outlook” section of the Wikipedia article gives a reasonable overview of the literature. This reddit thread has additional links: https://www.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/fv5oyh/has_t...

Thank you. Will read.

It'd be nice if its wikipedia page was updated to reflect this best available science. (Quickly scanning its /Talk: page, I can't make heads or tails of its current status. Sorry.)

Is this subreddit reliable? A cursory read of the comments left me with the impression that human-caused climate change is no big deal, and that makes me wary regarding whether other claims from there are to be counted upon.

The links are often fine, but the sub in my experience is not. The head moderator also moderates /r/climateskeptics and there is a significant overlap between the two subreddits' userbases. This wouldn't be a problem necessarily but many of these users argue in bad faith and derail the discourse on the sub.

This seems like a common climate denial tactic. I’m seeing it in my home country as well. Lots of truly bad-faith skeptic contributions to climate change forums on Facebook, made by people who obviously don’t care about science or evidence.

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