“CO2 Is The Most Important Greenhouse Gas – Methane Accounts For Up To 40% Of The Greenhouse Effect”

Gavin has succeeded in making the press completely illiterate about the greenhouse effect.

The focus of most efforts worldwide to fight climate change is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It is the most important greenhouse gas because it has been emitted in such vast volumes through the burning of fossil fuels.

But other greenhouse gases, such as methane, account for up to 40 per cent of the greenhouse gas effect, trapping the Sun’s heat on Earth.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/

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21 Responses to “CO2 Is The Most Important Greenhouse Gas – Methane Accounts For Up To 40% Of The Greenhouse Effect”

  1. Mike Davis says:

    That is The Gav.
    H2O is 90 to 97% and CH4 is 40% that should leave 170% for all the other GHGs.
    GAV is so special he is 500% certain that the garbage he feeds his models can be verified by the garbage he feeds his model and both are consistent with what he thinks the results should be.

  2. MostlyHarmless says:

    Methane is colourless and odourless – it’s invisible to human eyes. Its two small absorption peaks are also all but invisible in outgoing LW IR absorption spectra plotted from satellite data. Where does all this “50x, 25x, 20x, 10x (take your pick) more powerful than CO2” come from?

    Even if the 50x factor were true, its 1.8 ppmv concentration would make it equivalent to about 90 ppmv CO2, or less than 25% of CO2 forcing. This sort of claim is scientific, logical and mathematical nonsense.

    • Mike Davis says:

      You are missing the need for sounding terribly threatening so the Chicken Little Brigade has a new line to scream about. It would get real boring if they only cried abut CO2 or raising sea levels or Ocean “Acidification”.. Using words like Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Acid are more ominous than using the molecular structure. Dy-hydrogen Monoxide sounds a lot more alarming than H2O or water.
      Why not just call it by a commonly used name “Natural Gas”?

  3. Gavin has succeeded in making the press completely illiterate about the greenhouse effect.

    I thought that was what he was trying to do in the first place.

  4. Sundance says:

    I look for the eco-warriors to tough it out when they have surgery now and opt out of anesthesia in order to save my future grandchildren and the planet.

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