Marine geologist Karin Andreassen at CAGE, the study's lead author, says the data could hold lessons for retreating ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland, although her team could not determine how
much methane actually escaped into the atmosphere from blowouts in the distant past.
Not exact matches
The idea being raising cattle produces so
much methane (which is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) that the primary contribution to greenhouse gases is
actually the cow itself, not shipping, so eating local beef vs generic feed lot beef has little effect on the environmental impact.
Given a few months total of telescope time stretched across perhaps three years, Lovis and Snellen say, they could image Proxima b and probe the planet's atmosphere for signs of oxygen, water vapor and
methane — all crucial measurements for determining whether that faraway world is
actually much like Earth at all.
Those trees are going to fall down and rot and turn into
methane, which is
much worse than carbon dioxide,» he said, noting that by turning wood chips into biofuel, his company would
actually be reducing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
What the findings might
actually mean for earth will depend heavily on how
much carbon dioxide,
methane and other greenhouse gases yet gets billowed into the atmosphere, and how quickly.
But there are two greenhouse gases, which are
actually much stronger than carbon dioxide:
Methane, with a warming potential 30 times as strong as carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide, -LSB-...]
I'd feel so
much better about your continued calm in the face of multiple lines of evidence indicating rapidly increasing
methane escaping in the arctic if you were
actually researching
methane, which you aren't, so far as I know.
The Nature commentary by Penner et al. on which this argument is based
actually says that on top of the global warming caused by carbon dioxide, other short - lived pollutants (such as
methane and black carbon) cause an additional warming approximately 65 % as
much as CO2, and other short - lived pollutants (such as aerosols) also cause some cooling.
People farts don't produce nearly as
much methane as cow farts (and especially burps) do — most human farts
actually contain no
methane at all (Miller et al 1982).
But again and again I just see the same shit come out of you people «air temps, air temps, air temps» is all you know how to fucking look at, and the
actually CO2 and
methane levels, you don't have a clue how
much society produces compared to natural causes, right now people make about 50x as
much as nature puts out.