«Ship - based observations
show that methane concentrations in the
air above the East
Siberian Sea Shelf are nearly twice as high as the global average... Layers of sediment below the permafrost slowly emit methane gas, and this gas has been trapped for millennia beneath the permafrost.
The actual proper quote is «But methane - rich
Siberian air (see map of average atmospheric methane levels in January 2016, above)
shows no sign of rising any faster than the rest of the world.»