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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (685614)	6/14/2005 10:52:09 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The point is this: you said, "CO2 is not at all the only atmospheric gas that can promote warmer temperatures... and it is not even the one that can increase them the most, pound for pound in the air. For example, methane (CH4, commonly flared from oil wells and coal deposits around the world, leaking from trash dumps, a by-product of 'corporate farming' technologies such as massive feed lots, etc.) holds heat in the atmosphere four or five times more on a pound-for-pound basis then carbon dioxide does." Flaring methane means burning.....burning methane produces CO2 and H20 as all hydrocarbons do when burned, ie oxidized. So when methane is burned it is no longer methane. And what do you mean when you say it holds 4x more heat than carbon dioxide.