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A more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, methane emissions leap as Earth warms

2014-03-28 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: While carbon dioxide is typically painted as the bad boy of greenhouse gases, methane is roughly 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas. New research in the journal Nature indicates that for each degree that Earth's temperature rises, the amount of methane entering the atmosphere from microorganisms dwelling in lake sediment and freshwater wetlands -- the primary sources of the gas -- will increase several times. As temperatures rise, the relative increase of methane emissions will outpace...

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