The research showed a possible geological similarity between offshore Crete and the Levantine Basin, located between Israel and Cyprus, which was recently found to offer a way into an estimated 10 trillion cubic meters of gas, according to a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Christopher Landsea, a top U.S. expert on the subject, repeatedly notified the IPCC that no research had been conducted to support that claim--not in the Atlantic basin, or in any other basin.

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