True or False?

"Think of it as a high school chemistry class," said Billy Causey, the Caribbean and Gulf Mexico director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "You mix some chemicals together and nothing happens. You crank up the Bunsen burner and all of a sudden things start bubbling around. That's what's happening. That global Bunsen burner is cranking up."

Where would you look for information to substantiate this type of media scare? I mean, how would you go about checking the science and the facts of the matter, given that the NOAA has apparently endorsed this line of thinking. Is there a 'rest of the story'? Where is there actual data for looking at the substance of the claim? Or is this just another model system? Anyone who was there for the conference care to chime in?