BREAKING NEWS- our planet will get warmer as a result of this disaster. Natural gas is mainly composed of methane. After release to the atmosphere it is removed over about 10 years by gradual oxidation to carbon dioxide and water by hydroxyl radicals (·OH) formed in the troposphere or stratosphere, giving the overall chemical reaction CH4 + 2O2→ CO2 + 2H2O.While the lifetime of atmospheric methane is relatively short when compared to carbon dioxide, it is more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere, so that a given quantity of methane has 62 times the global-warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, 20 times over a 100-year period and 8 times over a 500-year period. Natural gas is thus a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide due to the greater global-warming potential of methane. Current estimates by the EPA place global emissions of methane at 3 trillion cubic feet (85 km3) annual, or 3.2 per cent of global production. Direct emissions of methane represented 14.3 per cent of all global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2004... THIS RIG WILL warm our planet even further.... youtube/watch?v=CAwQu1emFuA
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:45:13 +0000
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