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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2011 23:20:19 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2011 23:41:00 GMT -6
~rolls eyes~
(No disrespect intended for Jo... but if someone were to bring that up in front of me, that's what I would do... roll my eyes and keep my mouth shut...)
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Post by swamprat on Dec 15, 2011 9:16:30 GMT -6
No, no, lorelei! Last thing you want to do with methane is breathe through your nose.....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2011 10:15:44 GMT -6
No, no, lorelei! Last thing you want to do with methane is breathe through your nose..... ;D
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Post by skywalker on Dec 15, 2011 20:17:25 GMT -6
Does anybody know where this methane gas is coming from?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2011 1:59:14 GMT -6
From what I've heard it's leaking out of the permafrost...
Permafrost is permanently frozen ground... but it's not quite so permanent. It freezes and thaws repeatedly and causes roads and landscapes to get messed up. It's basically frozen solid plants from thousands (sometimes they think millions) of years old. When it thaws out, the plant material rots and releases methane gas and it comes up to the water's surface in bubbles.
A vast majority of the greenhouse gasses in the Earth's atmosphere comes from natural sources, like methane from rotting foliage all over the world, in the woods and the rain forests... and also carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide from volcanoes.
Mankind contributes a very minuscule amount of greenhouse gasses to our atmosphere. Most of it is naturally caused... like these methane bubbles.
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Post by skywalker on Dec 16, 2011 18:51:39 GMT -6
So these methane gas thingies could have been there for gazillions of years but people just discovered them? Personally I don't think there is any such animal as a "greenhouse gas." There is no way a gas can be a barrier to heat.
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