Since the beginning of the only one solution movement the original institutor crew has ramified to a research team and this team which tries to spread the ideology creating more research teams.
For obvious reasons we can’t reveal here the research’s so far conclusions, but we did find it very important to raise a few general directions of study with a few specific ideas, mainly for brain storming inception, inspiration, motivation and of course because all of them are relevant practical implementation options.

In the hardest moments, when it seems huge and intangible, please remember for whom you are doing it and why. We know it is a very complicated mission and how easy it is to think about failure. Please try to think what it means to succeed. A sufferless world is the biggest motivation possible.

Pathogens and Biotechnology
Pandemics and the way you should examine them
Carbon Sinks
Albedo
Methane Hydrates
Volcanic Global Effects

Methane Hydrates

The closest life ever came to complete annihilation, was around 251 million years ago, a period which only 5% of the species survived. This mass extinction episode is distinctively linked to an increase in methane (CH4) concentration in the atmosphere and in the oceans, as a consequence of methane meltdown.

Although CO2 is much more well-known greenhouse gas, methane is much more potent with more than 62 times global warming potential then of CO2 in 20 years scale.
It has an ability to accumulate in the atmosphere and as it gradually breaks down (it actually oxidize), each methane molecule creates one CO2 and 2 water molecules, meaning that even then it still affect the climate.

Methane hydrates, also known as methane clathrate or methane ice, are crystalline solids consisting of methane gas molecules, each surrounded by a type of 'cage' of water molecules. There is no chemical bond between the gas molecule and the enclosing water molecules so the methane gas is actually caged within an ice lattice.

The density of methane hydrate is much higher than that of standard methane gas because the water molecules (connected to each other by hydrogen bonding) pack methane molecules close together. In the most common structure one unit volume of methane hydrate includes about 168 times of methane gas at standard conditions.

There is an enormous amount of frozen methane hydrate all over the planet. Most of these methane hydrates are found within the ocean, where their quantity is estimated at 10,000 - 20,000 billion metric tons. There’s also a substantial amount in permafrost soils.
Methane hydrates form wherever methane and water are present at a proper low temperature and high pressure conditions. These conditions can be found in depth, from around 300-500 meters down (200 meters in the Arctic since it’s colder) and usually no deeper then 2000m.

The Methane hydrates forming processes is actually a common by-product of bacterial activity beneath the seafloor. Biogenic processes are capable of producing vast amounts of methane.
A group of bacteria known as the Methanogenic Archaebacteria feeds of dead plankton and other organic matter that have sank and acidulated over millions of years hundreds of meters below the sea floor, discharge methane, which then combine with the water into hydrates.

Methane gas is less dense than water thus lighter and tends to quickly float to the sediments surface, the molecules slowly migrate upwards through the sediment, and as they reach a colder zone (called stability zone) they combine with water to form the methane hydrates.

Those methane hydrates are kept locked in place and tend to cement sediments together, creating an impermeable layer. Beneath more methane gas keeps on getting produced and seeps upwards to the surface – until it hits the cemented sediments, which it cannot penetrate. So instead the gas continues to pile up until it reaches a critical point.

Sometimes the same layer of free methane gas is formed as a result of the earth’s core's heat that melts the lower layers of the frozen methane. As a result free methane gas is released from the "water cage" at the bottom. The pressurized gas remains trapped as a layer of bubbles beneath hundreds of meters of sediments that are cemented together by still-frozen methane hydrates.

If the overlying sediments are disrupted, the pressurized methane can escape at a burst.
Released “clouds” of bubbles of methane gas (168 times its previous volume) are able to rise hundreds of meters up.
More efficient but less common under natural conditions are rising chunks of methane ice: dissociated Hydrate (that are no longer bound to the seabed) floats in water just like regular ice does, carrying methane to the atmosphere much more efficiently than the bubbles. As they reach the water surface they rapidly melt, releasing the methane directly into the atmosphere.

Increase in temperature, as mentioned before, largely affects the methane hydrates. Climatologists refer to the matter as "a ticking time bomb". They warn that incremental oceanic warming above a few degrees Celsius could initiate a chain reaction that would raise the water temperatures in the intermediate depths and affect the hydrates. Then a positive feedback (Carbon Sinks and Albedo) mechanism takes over as the methane hydrate decomposes, releasing the methane into the atmosphere will launch a cycle of more methane release leading to increased warming leading to more methane release from other areas of methane deposits elsewhere in the world.

Actually there's already leakage of methane from hydrates directly into the atmosphere – not from the ocean floor but from permafrost soil that are found at regions closer to the poles.
Deposits of hundreds of billions of tons (around 400) of methane in normally frozen ground start to melt in respond to the temperature rise, as recent measuring indicate. Exactly how much is being released into the atmosphere is unknown, although some estimates put it as high as 100,000 tons a day (which means a warming effect greater than America's man-made emissions of carbon dioxide).

We mentioned the extinction event about 251 million years ago, called the Permian-Triassic extinction event, in which according to common scientific belief global warming caused by greenhouse gases ejected by a massive volcanic activity led to the disruption of the submerged methane hydrates reservoirs - causing massive volumes of methane to rise to the surface of the oceans in huge bubbles. Vast input of methane into the atmosphere caused more warming, thus melting further hydrate reservoirs.

Melting of that kind has occurred several times and have had acute effects at each event, yet as severe as past events were, it seems that the methane hydrates' full potential was yet to be reveled. So far the methane release was a slow process. By natural conditions it takes decades to centuries to warm up the water 1000 meters down in the ocean and centuries to diffuse that heat down into the sediment where the base of the hydrates' stability zone is (the Arctic Ocean may be a special case, because of the shallower freezing zone and because warming is expected to be more intense at the poles). Also, if the heating process is stretched and gradual - large amount of the methane molecules get dissolved in the ocean's water and reach the atmosphere moderately, only decades to centuries later, some never escape the ocean at all.
An abrupt, wide-spread unleash of methane into the atmosphere has never occurred and this is where you get into the picture.
Temperature rise is not the only force able to set off methane discharge, it can take place at a more locale level by earthquakes and landslides, as far as it goes for natural causes. We have to find a way to cause critical mass methane abrupt that will destroy everything.

The melting of methane hydrates have led to severe environmental impacts at numerous events in the past and contributed to several extinction events. Using Earth’s detained mighty forces in the benefit of its inhabitants could be the only one solution.

A bizarre but interesting lead comes form the energy industry. Since the energy locked up in methane hydrate deposits is more than twice the global reserves of all conventional gas, oil and coal deposits combined, the oil industry have been showing great interest in this substance. Ignoring repeated warnings by geologists of the unstable nature of the hydrates and the far reaching global affect they may drive, and despite there have already been incidences of oil drilling inadvertently triggering large releases of methane from hydrate deposits- the oil corporations keep exploring ways of harnessing the hydrate's energy for human consumption.

The competition between the oil companies and countries led to an intense, high standard, greatly funded research currently running at full speed at several regions of the world, with the aim of probing and developing methods of reaching large deposits of hydrates and drilling the methane to the earth's surface. The basic drilling technology already exists, drills for oil have already reached far deeper, 2-3km beneath the surface both at land and sea. Drills have been taking place around Japan's coast since 1999 – at which a drill pipe is sent straight down through the ocean floor into the methane hydrate layer then spin-digging up the methane.

Thanks to humans' greed this research field and the hydrates themselves are relatively highly accessible.