Ice core measurements of 14CH4 show no evidence of methane release to atmosphere from methane hydrates during a large warming event 11,600 years ago

Vasilii V Petrenko1, Jeffrey P Severinghaus2, Andrew Wyatt Smith3, Katja Riedel4, Edward J Brook5, Hinrich Schaefer4, Daniel Baggenstos6,7, Christina M Harth8, Quan Hua9, Christo Buizert5, Adrian Schilt10,11, Xavier Fain12, Logan Mitchell13, Thomas K Bauska14,15, Anais J Orsi16 and Ray F Weiss8, (1)University of Rochester, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)RSMAS, Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (4)NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (5)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, (6)University of Tasmania, Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia, (7)Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Center for Climate Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (8)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (9)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Kirrawee DC, Australia, (10)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (11)University of Bern, Physics Institute, Bern, Switzerland, (12)University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, IGE, Grenoble, France, (13)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (14)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (15)University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (16)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL - CEA - CNRS - UVSQ - Universite Paris-Saclay, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France