WILL THE United States’ energy revolution hurt the planet or help it? Will fracking for natural gas make fighting climate change harder or easier? Can the United States meet its goal of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent of 2005 levels by 2020? The answer to all of these crucial questions could depend on a colorless, odorless gas that shows up all over the place.
The substance is methane, the primary component in natural gas. Methane rises from landfills, escapes from coal mines, exits from cows’ posteriors, seeps out of drilling sites and leaks from the pipes that transport the fuel to large power plants and countertop stoves. Burning methane produces about half the heat-trapping carbon dioxide as burning coal, the greatest climate villain of the fossil fuels. But, uncombusted, methane is a powerful greenhouse gas in its own right, a heat-trapper many times more potent than carbon dioxide.
After six months of record cold, the morons at the Washington Post are worried about trapped heat and cow farts.
The WP’s obsession with cow posteriors (and the gaseous emissions) disturbs me……
That and methane doesn’t persist long, but why drag facts into an emotional argument???
OK, there is something seriously wrong with the WP making emotional arguments and referring to cow posteriors in the process.
Maybe it’s the air in DC??? To much political methane in the air?
The Washington Post:
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The Council on Foreign Relations is part of the Rhodes-Milner Round Table. Carroll Quigley was Bill Clinton’s mentor and wrote two books about the group.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Banks/Tragedy_Hope_excerpt.html
(wwwDOT)thirdworldtraveler.com/New_World_Order/Anglo_American_Estab.html
Also see: (wwwDOT)thirdworldtraveler.com/One_World_Government/Council_For_Relations_TBG.html
Some of the other BOARD MEMBERS:
No gas of any kind at any concentration in the atmosphere can detectably warm Earth’s surface or the atmosphere. The concept of a greenhouse gas is fatally flawed, mainly because the absorption spectra of these gases if actually rather narrow and gases such as methane are measured in parts per billion not parts per million as with CO2. Who cares that methane is 20 times the “greenhouse” gas that CO2 is when it is 500 to a thousand times less in concentration in the atmosphere. It’s meaningless.
Very simply, the IR radiation given off by the warm Earth’s surface may be absorbed and redirected downward by gases in the air, but the warm surface will not absorb this energy as those energy levels are already full, which is why this radiation was emitted int eh first place. This is according to the laws of thermodynamics, in which the cold upper troposphere cannot warm the warmer Earth’s surface. It simply does not happen.
Furthermore, at night—night-time is not part of the global climate models— IR radiation goes put to space and any IR emitted by water vapor and CO2 is also lost to space, staying always colder than the atmosphere.
I think it’s time to invest in Bovine Beano
A horse’s ass should know.
Heat-trapping what a quaint idea. How does that work? Certainly not with any science.