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”
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.
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 “
But, but, but ...IT HAS TO!!! We said so!!!
Good news for the (I believe) main cause of methane... termites.