(03-07-2023, 05:27 AM)Mav date Wrote:I wonder if the fossil fuel industry will fund research into human and animal emissions of carbon dioxide versus emissions related to fossil fuels. No doubt the former are the real problem.Facts help in a debate.
Methane is 35x more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.
Total methane emissions equate to 1/200th of Total CO2 emissions.
About 60% of Total Methane emissions come from human activities, the rest is nature.
The largest known methane reserves are natural, if they burp they will potentially cause global effects that dwarf anthropomorphic greenhouse gas emissions. Every earthquake, every volcanic eruption, every tsunami is a roll of the dice.
Methane longevity in the environment is about 1/18th of the longevity of CO2.
But let's not worry about the facts, let's just ban anything that is methane, regardless of whether it leads to a cleaner environment.
The big problem isn't really the emissions of methane, because globally it has a miniscule effect, the really big and stupid problem is the fact it is another resource that gets wasted, humanity at it's best.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"