Could BP Spill Kill All Life on Earth?

Could the Deepwater Horizon spill cause a massive eruption of methane that destroys civilization as we know it, bet-hedging question mark?

The problem with journalists is that most of us are trained as journalists and not, say, economists or physicists. To a certain extent we need to take experts’ word for it that they are correct. So, some writers examine the research of scientists at Northwestern and Texas A&M and conclude that the BP oil spill may cause the world to end, who are we to argue with them?