“..Methane is 21 times more heat-trapping that carbon dioxide.”
If you’re a frequent reader of environmental websites – no doubt you’ve seen some version of that sentence many times.
The “twenty-times” figure is the most common way of explaining how methane (or CH4, or uncombusted natural gas) reacts in the atmosphere…”
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“..Actually, any CH4 released today is at least 56 times more heat-trapping than a molecule of C02 also released today.
And because of the way it reacts in the atmosphere – the number is probably even higher -
- according to research conducted by Drew Shindell – a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Center…”
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Methane’s Contribution to Global Warming Is Worse than You Thought | Alternet.
