Thank you very much, Mr. Dewar.
Stabilization means holding it at the status quo or slowing it down. What is happening is that the acceleration part has gotten ahead of our being able to fund what is necessary to match what is happening. The recession did not help. I predicted that in the book, and sure enough.... But where do we find the sources of funding for adequate stabilization?
Methane is now leaking out of the seabed. I don't know whether this came up in the meeting, but oil slicks were discovered off Scott Inlet on eastern Baffin Island. They thought they were maybe left over from the drilling in Greenland several years ago, but no, evidently they are coming from a crack in the seabed. Further studies will be done next summer. You may know this.
The fact is that it's just adding to the methane, but it's also the methane. When I was up there, there were all these rivulets heading to the ocean. I found oil slicks on some of them. In other words, the methane is associated with oil seepage. They believe that the oil seepage, as well as the methane, is coming from the seabed.
This is something we haven't figured out how to deal with. In the whole article there was not one mention of cleaning up that oil slick, which I found a little unnerving.