Beans? I thought it was the cows ...
Posted on 08/22/2015 7:45:37 AM PDT by rktman
More bad news for climate alarmists: methane released by the thawing permafrost just isn’t looking like the deadly threat it was supposed to be.
For years it has been an article of faith among climate doommongers that methane is the ‘you ain’t seen nothin’ yet’ of greenhouse gases.
Man-made CO2 is a big enough problem on its own, the theory runs. But just wait till you see what happens when rising temperatures lead to the melting of the Arctic permafrost. That’s when your real troubles begin because then all that trapped methane will be released – and methane is around 34 times as deadly a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide…
Indeed, as Watts Up With That? reports, there’s a scientific crisis group dedicated entirely to this problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I thought methane was sort of a sub-cycle of the carbon cycle and that methane broke down relatively quickly into co2? Right? Wrong? Close? I’m an idiot?
“The Science of the Consensus is Settled”
It is how the EPA will kill drilling in this country…
Maybe if Jack Hydrazine is awake, he can remind us of the cycle. Not an idiot, just early. LOL!
Raging bulls? I thought I saw that some “assault bulls” killed some runners in Pamplona recently.
Well, extraordinarily high levels of methane can be dangerous of course -— if you happen to be on Venus or, closer to home, in confined spaces like the Market Street BART station in San Francisco before the twice-daily chlorine bleach hose-down ...
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
I gave a guy who is a neighbor of mine a ride to the grocery store when all his vehicles were broken down.
He LOADED UP on oversize cans of baked beans.
WHO do I report him to?
Maybe now we can mine the methyl hydrate from the ocean floors to use as an excellent source of fuel for power plants.
Still going to continue to make my 15 bean soup (that’s variety not quantity), so deal with it people.
control the sun?
If 50 years from now global warming were real and we did need to cool down, it would be extremely easy to shoot confetti into space that would reflect sunlight back.
We could cover just the polar regions, or the equatorial regions, or wherever we wanted. Confetti is cheap and light weight. We could send up quantities to drop the temperature 0.1 degree or 1 degree or 10 degrees.
One of the biggest false claims of the extremists is that once global warming happens, it can’t be undone. That is blatantly false.
Thirty-four times as powerful as CO2. You know what? They never say why. You know why that is? Because they heard it somewhere and they keep on repeating it. Actually, these days,34 times is at the low end of the usual claims for how powerful CH4 is compared to CO2. Earlier this year, Scientific American said it is 86 times as powerful as CO2 up from their 2010 claim that it was only 72 times as powerful.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/powerful-global-warming-pollution-cut-by-new-u-s-rules/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/defusing-the-methane-time-bomb/
But that aside, amuse yourself, do a search on “Why CH4 is more powerful than CO2 “
Fifteen! That makes it high capacity bean soup.
Your going to have to limit that to 10 beans.
Great Idea! An instant brand spanking new Ice Age! Anybody got the secret sauce to bring back the megafauna as well?
But, but, but ...IT HAS TO!!! We said so!!!
Good news for the (I believe) main cause of methane... termites.
You’ll take my 15 beans from my cold dead fingers. :))
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