Entries tagged with: Methane

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Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point

(This is a long piece, but I'm putting it all on the front page because it's a massive issue.) A piece in the latest issue of Science shows that there's a considerable amount of methane (CH4) coming from the East...

Posted on March 9, 2010 10:50 AM

Life on Mars? Why It Matters

News today from NASA that they've confirmed the presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere, concentrated in three areas (one of the major sources, Nili Fossae, is shown here). For a variety of reasons, this offers the strongest evidence...

Posted on January 15, 2009 2:38 PM

Methane: It's Not Just From Your Cheeseburger

I noted at the end of August reports of methane "leaks" in the Arctic circle. The Independent has another report, offering more detail on the findings. Alex at Worldchanging put up a piece about it today, bringing a lot more...

Posted on September 24, 2008 12:28 PM

Methane Trigger for Geo & Bio Engineering

Methane (CH4) is 20-25 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2). We're quite familiar with one source of atmospheric methane -- enteric fermentation in cattle (see my innumerable posts about cheeseburger carbon footprints). But there's another...

Posted on August 30, 2008 2:29 PM

Milk's Hoofprint

I was asked in email if I'd calculated the carbon footprint of milk, along with the footprint of a cheeseburger, and I realized that I had most of the figures I'd need already in hand. [Caveat: In order to fully...

Posted on July 18, 2007 4:35 PM

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