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Methane is the primary component of natural gas, after all …
Matthew Yglesias » Arctic Seabed Methane Stores Destabilizing 2010
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Methane is twenty times more potent as an atmosphere-warming greenhouse gas.
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Methane is stinky stuff, so you don't want to let it escape.
Limits to Growth?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Methane is like the radical wing of the carbon cycle
A Confession 2010
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Methane is twenty times more potent as an atmosphere-warming greenhouse gas.
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Methane (CH4): Methane is produced by the production and transportation of a number of fossil fuels, by livestock, and by the decay of organic materials.
Prevention of Global Warming: Understanding The Main Causes 2009
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Methane is produced and then it is purified ready for use.
Human waste turned into renewable gas to power homes Tim Webb 2010
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Additionally, all this Methane is generated from food and grass, which grabbed its carbon from the atmosphere anyway.
POO POWER: Giant Vat of Crap to Produce Natural Gas for CA | Inhabitat 2008
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Methane is ten times more effective a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and so much of it is trapped in hydrates that it could have a major effect on our climate.
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Methane is the byproduct of bacterial breakdown of organic matter (ie “rotting”), which also creates hydrogen sulfide, which our noses recognize as sewer gas.
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