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Dear <Name of Recipient>, 
	
Current human practices are causing great shifts in temperatures which are directly affecting Polar Regions. The melting of permafrost regions is dangerous since methane hydrates are concealed in these areas. In the past 150 years methane concentrations have doubled, and are projected to increase and raise global temperatures by two to three degrees (possibly higher in the higher latitudes)  if clathrates are disrupted (Schmidt, 2004). The estimated emissions of methane are thought to increase up to sixty percent in thirty years due to permafrost melt which is believed to house 10,000 gigatonnes of methane (Kerr, 1999). 

These alarming figures are similar to those during the transition period during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs which caused the extinction of some marine creatures (Kerr, 1999). This data is alarming, but it is good to know researchers such as you are working on trying to understand the potential impact of clathrates on the past and present. It is important for you to know there are people out there who are in support of your work which is really important to environmental and human health. Please contact me in regards to this matter, so you and your people can be supported while working on this controversial issue. 
  
Sincerely, 

<Your Name>
References: 
Kerr, Richard, A., 1999. Climate Change: A Smoking Gun for an Ancient Methane Discharge. 	Science 286: 146-148. 

Schmidt, Gavin, 2004. Methane: A Scientific Journey from Obscurity to Climate Super- Stardom. 	Retrieved on 28 March 2008, http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/features/methane/.