Some of this energy is then used to combine other methane molecules into more complex organic molecules — food, in other words. (newscientist.com)
Typically, six water molecules surround a single methane molecule, and many of those cages linked together form a crystal. (discovermagazine.com)
This must result in about 85 times as much infrared radiation from the Sun, at 3.3 microns wavelength, being sent back into space by the absorption and re-radiation from methane molecules in the upper atmosphere as could be re-radiated into the lower atmosphere for infrared radiation sourced from the warmed Earth. (judithcurry.com)