montgom626
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Six Forgotten Greenhouse Gases Methane is the real problem, not CO2
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Actually it's not a matter of a game in my opinion.
CO2 produced by ICE cars is responsible of temperature increasing in the world. As temperature increases ice at the North pole melts. As ice melts the salt concentration in the sea decreases. As the salt concentration in the sea decreases the current of the Channel decreases. When the current of the Channel will stop the North side of the Earth will get frozen.
And you’re basing that statement on what exactly?…/ Methane is the real problem, not CO2 /…
What is methane's contribution to global warming?
What the science says...
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While methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, there is over 200 times more CO2 in the atmosphere. Eg - CO2 levels are 380 ppm (parts per million) while methane levels are 1.75ppm. Hence the amount of warming methane contributes is calculated at 28% of the warming CO2 contributes. Here is a graph of the various forcings that influence climate (methane is CH4, right above CO2).
This is not to say methane can be ignored - reducing methane levels is definitely a goal to pursue. The good news is since the early 1990's, the trend in increasing methane has slowed down and even leveled off in the last few years (Dlugokencky 2003).
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Source: What is methane's contribution to global warming? | skepticalscience.com
Six Forgotten Greenhouse Gases | Weather Underground
Methane
You can say it as nicely or scientifically as you’d like, but the bottom line is, cows are farting out a lot of methane and it’s pretty bad for the environment. Methane is produced as a byproduct of microbial life, and many of these microbes live in the guts of cattle, which we keep in large numbers, mostly for beef and dairy products. Methane is also emitted in large quantities from rice paddies, as the microbes need moisture, and rice paddies have a significant amount of it. A 2010 study found that paddies in Cambodia alone emitted nearly 380,000 tons of methane from 2005-2006, the equivalent of burning 16.8 million barrels of oil, according to the EPA. For context, the United States consumed 6.8 billion barrels of oil in 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Climate repair thus means recapturing the excess carbon dioxide from the air, not merely the smokestack, then stashing it safely for millennia. But by now the cleanup problem has become so large that only the oceans are big enough to do the job within 20 years via more photosynthesis–and then only if the new green stuff is piped down into the ocean depths before it can revert to carbon dioxide.
We have to subtract carbon dioxide, not merely reduce what we add, and that takes a new approach. We need to quickly re-think our approach to the climate problem, just as Tesla re-thought its approach to car design.
That article seems to ignore the faster breakdown of methane, about 10 years, compared to CO2, 100 years.
It's the push-pull pumping that keeps the surface layers from acidifying; it moves it into the depths, a 50x dilution.
Neither I, nor the good folks at FAIR are disputing that...Actually hurricanes and tornadoes are caused by Global Warming. /...
I’m not sure, but it seems you are misunderstanding.
Neither I, nor the good folks at FAIR are disputing that...
Media is all about ratings. A significant fraction of Americans don't accept climate change/global warming, and they're likely to tune out media that suggests otherwise.
Media is all about ratings. A significant fraction of Americans don't accept climate change/global warming, and they're likely to tune out media that suggests otherwise.