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20 megatonnes/year is small potatoes compared to methane hydrates' 1-5 teratonnes storage that could go within a decade. There is at most 1.5 teratonnes of methane in arctic permafrost, but that will take much longer to release (50-100 years at a very conservative minimum) and it will degrade with a 7 year half-life.