Posted on 03/04/2009 6:59:22 PM PST by Gordon Greene
Aquatic animals that feed on lake and stream bottom sediments burp out small amounts of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, a new study finds.
While the biological emissions from these critters pales in comparison to the nitrous oxide emitted by fossil fuel burning, their contribution could increase as more and more nitrogen-rich fertilizer runs off into lakes, streams and seas, the authors of the study said.
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is more commonly known to anyone who has sat in the dentist's chair as laughing gas.
In the atmosphere it is a powerful greenhouse gas, packing about 310 times the punch as the same weight of carbon dioxide (though carbon dioxide is still the bigger driver because there is much more of it).
Studies of soil-dwelling earthworms had showed that the creepy crawlies emitted nitrous oxide because of the nitrogen-converting microbes they gobbled up into their guts with every mouthful of soil.
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Maybe he’ll be a victim of spontaneous human (questionable) combustion... that would be a gas!
Seriously these people are extremely disturbed.
Everyone is going to die sooner or later.
At this point I think the earth may just explode with all the insanity going on. oh, yes, the earth may want to die also. I'm sure it's tired of all the BS going on. Life is no fun anymore.
BTW, does this mean no more balloons at parties? gas is gas.
First meat is not good, but then beans will possibly be banned.
How much noxious gas is produced by millions of decaying mammalian bodies? That is the logical result of all this hysteria.
Wormy, wormy... who’s got the wormy.
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