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If methane is allowed to leak into the air before being used—from a leaky pipe, for instance—it absorbs the sun’s heat, warming the atmosphere. For this reason, it’s considered a greenhouse gas, like carbon dioxide.

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If methane is allowed to leak into the air before being used—from a leaky pipe, for instance—it absorbs the sun’s heat, warming the atmosphere.

While methane doesn’t linger as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, it is initially far more devastating to the climate because of how effectively it absorbs heat. In the first two decades after its release, methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Both types of emissions must be addressed if we want to effectively reduce the impact of climate change.

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How does this GHG behave? Is it dangerous (flammable, toxic, etc.)? Who or what is it dangerous to?

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How does this GHG behave? Is it dangerous (flammable, toxic, etc.)? Who or what is it dangerous to?

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If methane is allowed to leak into the atmosphere it takes the sun's heat and it has negative impacts on the planet.

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What, if anything, is this GHG used for?

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What, if anything, is this GHG used for?

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Methane is the main ingredient in natural gas

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Why is it important? Does it have good effects, bad effects or possibly both? 

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Why is it important? Does it have good effects, bad effects or possibly both? 

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About 25% of the manmade global warming we’re experiencing today is caused by methane emissions. It has a bad effect.

Methane is also the main ingredient in natural gas. Because methane can be captured from landfills, it can be burned to produce electricity, heat buildings, or power garbage trucks. Capturing methane before it gets into the atmosphere also helps reduce the effects of climate change.

Methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas. One pound of methane traps 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than a pound of carbon dioxide.

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Where does methane come from? What are ALL of the sources of it? Does it occur naturally, or is it man-made?

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Where does methane come from? What are ALL of the sources of it? Does it occur naturally, or is it man-made?

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Methane can come from many sources, both natural and manmade. But the largest source of industrial emissions is the oil and gas industry.

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Methane can also be captured from farm digesters, which are big tanks that contain manure and other waste from barns that house livestock such as cows and pigs.

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1. methane traps 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than a pound of carbon dioxide.

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Methane: The other important greenhouse gas

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Carbon dioxide, or CO2, isn't the only dangerous greenhouse gas. Methane can also significantly damage the atmosphere. The good news? Methane leaks cost little to fix.

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where does nitrous oxide naturally come from

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Whether it is natural gas (which in most part methane), coal or petroleum 24 sep 2012 of the methane that humans emit comes from gas, just end up emitting landfills anyway, so you may as well do some a chemical compound with formula ch4 group 14 hydride and found both below ground under sea floor.