Posted on 12/13/2023 12:47:08 PM PST by algore
Whether it's eating less meat or cycling instead of driving, humans can do many things to help prevent climate change.
Unfortunately, breathing less isn't one of them.
That might be a problem, as a new study claims the gases in air exhaled from human lungs is fueling global warming.
Every person breathes out CO2 when they exhale, but in their new study, the researchers focused on methane and nitrous oxide.
These two are both powerful greenhouse gases, but because they're breathed out in much smaller quantities, their contribution to global warming may have been overlooked. Methane and nitrous oxide in the air we exhale makes up to 0.1 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, scientists say.
And that's not even accounting for the gas we release from burps and farts, or emissions that come from our skin without us noticing.
The new study was led by Dr Nicholas Cowan, an atmospheric physicist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh.
'Exhaled human breath can contain small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to global warming,' Dr Cowan and colleagues say.
'We would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible.'
As most of us remember from science classes at school, humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide
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Who didn’t see this coming?
When you allow mentally ill totalitarians to rule you, this is what you get.
“Save The Planet- Kill Yourself”
Ironic- EVERY TIME i get into a debate with a climate change loon i ALWAYS ask them the same thing- why haven’t you jumped off a bridge yet??
They then give me that glazed, “my two brain cells don’t understand what you’re saying,” look and i tell them if they are concerned about the planet they should become part of the solution and jump off a bridge rather than remain part of the problem by living and breathing each day.
I then ask if they are proud they are destroying the planet.
The reactions are priceless- i especially love the really, really brain dead who accuse me of threatening them.
We all knew that this was coming.
Reducing carbon on a carbon based planet is insanity
Pay attention Global Warming cultists.
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