They insist that methane is “a far more potent greenhouse gas” than carbon dioxide, and that its emissions must be drastically reduced if we are to avoid “runaway global warming.” So EPA and other federal agencies are preparing to unleash a tsunami of new regulations to block natural gas drilling, fracking, flaring and production, while radical environmentalists orchestrate new assaults on petrochemical plants that create plastics, paints, fabrics, computer and vehicle components and countless other products for modern life. Of course, the Obama EPA and Climate Cataclysm Industry ignore these inconvenient facts. But it’s still a piddling contribution to a trivial amount in the air. The manmade portions are different for the USA: 39% energy use, 36% livestock, 18% landfills, and 8% sewage treatment and other sources. The remaining 29% comes from natural sources: oceans, wetlands, termites, forest fires and volcanoes. Still more comes from landfills and sewage treatment (11%) and burning wood and animal dung (8%). Fully 33% comes from agriculture: 12% from rice growing and 21% from meat production. You’re absolutely right, again.Įqually relevant, only 19% of that global methane comes from oil, natural gas and coal production and use. There’s three times more helium and 230 times more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. That’s a trivial amount, you say: 1.7 parts per million. That number, by sheer coincidence, is also the percentage of methane in Earth’s atmosphere. Quick: What is 17 cents out of $100,000? If you said 0.00017 percent, you win the jackpot. Radical green and government agitators slam methane in latest bid to terminate fossil fuel use Methane Measurment vs.
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