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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: flowers on November 25, 2013, 11:00:24 pm

Title: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: flowers on November 25, 2013, 11:00:24 pm: http://news.yahoo.com/study-us-spewing-50-more-methane-epa-says-201454426.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is spewing 50 percent more methane — a potent heat-trapping gas — than the federal government estimates, a new comprehensive scientific study says. Much of it is coming from just three states: Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

That means methane may be a bigger global warming issue than thought, scientists say. Methane is 21 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, the most abundant global warming gas, although it doesn't stay in the air as long.

Much of that extra methane, also called natural gas, seems to be coming from livestock, including manure, belches, and flatulence, as well as leaks from refining and drilling for oil and gas, the study says. It was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

The study estimates that in 2008, the U.S. poured 49 million tons of methane into the air. That means U.S. methane emissions trapped about as much heat as all the carbon dioxide pollution coming from cars, trucks, and planes in the country in six months.

That's more than the 32 million tons estimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration or the nearly 29 million tons reckoned by the European Commissio

I have the address were this including manure, and flatulence is coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave DC
Title: Re: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: Chieftain on November 25, 2013, 11:06:39 pm: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/BLOG%20IMAGES/CowFartUnits_Schedule_UN.gif)
Title: Re: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: Chieftain on November 25, 2013, 11:11:54 pm: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/BLOG%20IMAGES/carbonoffset.jpg)
Title: Re: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: Chieftain on November 25, 2013, 11:12:57 pm: Threads like this one are useless without pictures.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/BLOG%20IMAGES/rosieooh.jpg)
Title: Re: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: flowers on November 25, 2013, 11:21:24 pm: Quote from: Chieftain on November 25, 2013, 11:12:57 pm
Threads like this one are useless without pictures.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/BLOG%20IMAGES/rosieooh.jpg)
that is one huge camel toe!
Title: Re: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: Liberal_Spy on November 25, 2013, 11:24:15 pm: Quote from: flowers on November 25, 2013, 11:21:24 pm
that is one huge camel toe!

I would have been fine without you pointing that out for me. :silly:
Title: Re: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: flowers on November 25, 2013, 11:28:21 pm: Quote from: Anomalism on November 25, 2013, 11:24:15 pm
I would have been fine without you pointing that out for me. :silly:
Well I saw it ................after puking I had to share!!!! :silly:
Title: Re: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: Chieftain on November 25, 2013, 11:36:42 pm: And how much methane do you suppose she spews in one year??

In CFUs....
Title: Re: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: rustynail on November 26, 2013, 12:04:02 am: The word ' spewing ' is a clue.
Title: Re: Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
Post by: Chieftain on November 26, 2013, 12:56:45 am: Quote from: rustynail on November 26, 2013, 12:04:02 am
The word ' spewing ' is a clue.

Oh, most definitely.....that's some nasty there......

:beer: