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To: Sweet Ol who wrote (182370)1/28/2014 2:40:04 PM
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Cows produce around 15% of man-made methane emissions.

Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, by a factor of around 25. Offsetting this is that it persists in the atmosphere for a much shorter time than CO2 - under 10 years vs around 100 years for CO2.

At one point there was worry that persistent global warming would lead to a massive methane release from Arctic permafrost and produce a forward feedback loop that could spell disaster. More recently those concerns have been tempered:

sciencemag.org

Peter
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