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http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/28/white-house-looks-to-regulate-cow-flatulence-as-part-of-climate-agenda/
As one of the most significant natural sources of atmospheric methane, wetlands remain a major area of concern with respect to climate change.
Pound for pound, the comparative impact of methane CH4 on climate change is over 20 times greater than CO2, methane emission will have 34 times the impact on temperature of a carbon dioxide emission of the same mass over the following 100 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetland_methane_emissions
To list a few, marshes, swamps, bogs, fens, peatlands, muskegs, and pocosins are all examples of different kinds of wetlands. Because each type of wetland is unique, the same characteristics used to classify each wetland can also be used to characterize the amount of methane emitted from that particular wetland. Water saturated ditches develop, which due to the warm, moist environment, end up emitting a large amount of methane.
However, the amount of carbon dioxide in the surrounding atmosphere, which would in turn decrease the addition of methane into the atmosphere, as shown by an 80% decrease in methane flux in areas of doubled carbon dioxide levels.[4]
However, the amount of carbon dioxide in the surrounding atmosphere, which would in turn decrease the addition of methane into the atmosphere, as shown by an 80% decrease in methane flux in areas of doubled carbon dioxide levels.[4]
let me try to get this straight..
methane is 20 times worse then CO2,.. yet increased CO2 decreases methane emissions by 80%
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notice how they completely ignored natural methane emissions?
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
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One of the indisputable facts in the field of global climate change is that the atmospheric build-up of methane (CH4) has been, over the past few decades, occurring much more slowly than all predictions
additional reading.. and knowing if the cattle issue ever comes up for rules making public comment !!!This behavior is quite perplexing. And while we are not sure what processes are behind it, we do know one thing for certain—
the slow growth of methane concentrations is an extremely cold bucket of water dumped on the overheated claims that global warming
Here is how NOAA methane-guru Ed Dlugokencky and colleagues put it in their publication last week describing recent methane behavior:
We emphasize that, although changing climate has the potential to dramatically increase CH4 emissions from huge stores of carbon in permafrost and from Arctic hydrates, our observations are not consistent with sustained changes there yet.
However, the amount of carbon dioxide in the surrounding atmosphere, which would in turn decrease the addition of methane into the atmosphere, as shown by an 80% decrease in methane flux in areas of doubled carbon dioxide levels.[4] ]/quote] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/222486310_An_ecological_perspective_on_methane_emissions_from_northern_wetlands
sure wish scientists had an open mind and weren't stuck back in the 1990's :roll: :? :???: :roll: