Posted on 10/18/2023 9:41:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Climate change” is in the news daily, with each featured story getting an attention-grabbing sensationalist headline. The frenzy is at its peak now because it’s the time of year for tropical storms and wildfires. However, to appreciate that these stories are pure narratives, it’s a good time to consider the facts behind the so-called “greenhouse gases.”
Several atmospheric gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor, absorb light in the infrared region. These are collectively known as the “greenhouse gases” because absorbing infrared energy warms up the air—hence the name greenhouse effect.
Carbon dioxide, on a per-molecule basis, is six times as effective an absorber as water is. However, that’s offset by the fact that carbon dioxide is only about 0.04% of the atmosphere (400 parts per million). This means that, overall, it’s much less important than water vapor in terms of its ability to warm the atmosphere.
And then there’s methane. Pound-for-pound methane can trap 25 times more heat than carbon dioxide. However, there are two reasons why scientists say it will never significantly contribute to global warming. Primarily, it is by far the rarest of the green house gases.
But there is another reason why we will probably never have to worry about methane being a major contributor to global warming: Methane’s narrow absorption bands, at 3.3 microns and 7.5 microns , perfectly match…water’s! Did you catch that? It’s worth emphasizing: “The ratio of the percentages of water to methane is such that the effects of methane are completely masked by water.”
Image: Termites in a wetland by AI.
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Many studies have attributed a methane spike to soaring emissions from tropical wetlands, predominantly in Africa. “A ‘significant change’ in tropical weather ascribed to human-caused climate change has led wetlands to get bigger and more plants to grow there, thus leading to more decomposition — a process that produces methane.”
In Ireland, farmers may be forced to kill some of their livestock to meet government requirements:
Greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland’s agriculture industry must be reduced by 25 per cent by 2030. This is part of the country’s latest Climate Action Plan, which pledges to halve overall carbon emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.
Current initiatives to cut methane gas emissions from domestic livestock like cows and pigs by culling them, a potentially famine-inducing policy, fail to take into account the sheer volume of feral animals. For example, in Australia, “there is 10 times the number of feral pigs ... than domestic.”
Bkmk
The current cow herd in the USA is approx 90 million.
At their peak there were up to 100 million buffalo.
What these Demons are doing the the farmers in Ireland and in other places based on what they KNOW is fake science... only FedPosting describes a just solution for these perverts.
Having experienced Wyoming winters, and Florida summers, I'd rather sweat in Florida than freeze in Wyoming.
In Northern Kalifornia they constructed a music venue on top of an old waste dump. The dump had been closed for many years. It was covered with green grass, and had settled significantly. So, the design of the venue is about 5,000 seats, with rolling grass being the farthest away. The seats are more expensive, the grass is just general admission. So........when the facility opened, people were smoking (cigarettes & who knows what else) in the grassy area. All of the refuse underneath had been decomposing for years. The methane flowed up, and little fires occurred in many spots. They had to close down and create/install a system to draw the methane away.
I imagine the folks that “smoke two joints in the morning” enjoyed the flames while they lasted.
Could you provide at least a little more salient info?
In what city or at least county was this? What era? 2000s? 1990s?
Thanks!
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Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View CA.
Shoreline theatre is declared safe
MOUNTAIN VIEW (AP) - Inspectors gave the Shoreline Amphitheatre a clean bill of health, and a Whitney Houston concert is expected to go on as scheduled Saturday night, officials said. The Mountain View Fire Department made its conclusion Thursday alter crews dug up and patched 14 pieces of lawn where small fires have been reported in recent weeks. At least one of the fires was fueled by methane gas seeping from rotting garbage under the $20 million outdoor facility, said Fire Chief Hugh Holden. The gas apparently accumulated in trash mixed with clay near the grassy surface at the center of the lawn. The four-foot-thick layer of clay is meant to separate the lawn above from the garbage below. Methane near the surface apparently seeped up and was ignited by matches or cigarettes dropped by concert-goers, investigators said.
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Bates chicken powered car.
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