Joye, Samantha B., Leifer, Ira, MacDonald, Ian R., Chanton, Jeffrey P., Meile, Christof D., Teske, Andreas P., Kostka, Joel E., Chistoserdova, Ludmila, Coffin, Richard, Hollander, David, Kastner, Miriam, Montoya, Joseph P., Rehder, Gregor, Solomon, Evan, Treude, Tina and Villareal, Tracy A. (2011) Comment on "A Persistent Oxygen Anomaly Reveals the Fate of Spilled Methane in the Deep Gulf of Mexico". Science, 332 (6033). p. 1033. DOI 10.1126/science.1203307.

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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.

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