Warming May Increase Freshwater Methane Emissions

“LONDON – British scientists have identified yet another twist to the threat of global warming. Any further rises in temperature are likely to accelerate the release of methane from rivers, lakes, deltas, bogs, swamps, marshlands and rice paddy fields”.

“Methane or natural gas is a greenhouse gas. Weight for weight, it is more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a century, and researchers have repeatedly examined the contribution of natural gas emitted by ruminant cattle to global warming. But Gabriel Yvon-Durocher of the University of Exeter and colleagues considered something wider: the pattern of response to temperature in those natural ecosystems that are home to microbes that release methane”.

 Tim Radford, Climate News Network, 2014, “Warming May Increase Freshwater Methane Emissions” Retrieved by https://www.climatecentral.org/news/warming-may-increase-freshwater-methane-emissions-17210

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