Methane, in your farts, is the leading cause of global warming, fact. (So in theory, you farts can 'kill'.)
http://www.zeeburgnieuws.nl/nieuws/mb_m ... _melt.html
Herres a summary of the link:
A gas so volatile to the ozone, it acts as a UV blanket keeping the heat in and pushing everything else out. It does this as much as 33 times more efficiently than Carbon Dioxide gas does over a period of 100 years.
You know the term permafrost, but have you ever heard of solid methane contained below it? Methane hydrates.
Like an oil field, theres 'pockets' of methane hydrates so large contained below comparably thinner permafrost layers everywhere in the ocean that once the permafrost above it melts, methane gas is released in large bubbles capable of sinking an entire tanker ship. This gas then goes straight into the atmosphere, collecting in the ozone and keeping UV rays inside.
(Keep this in mind, Hybrid cars will do absolutely nothing to help the ozone, contrary to popular belief. The amount of cars on the road today are incapable of providing the amount of geenhouse gasses necessary to deplete the ozone layer, and warm the ocean....thus melting permafrost. If these gases were alone trying to beat an ozone layer, it would take thousands upon thousands of years just to get to a 50% depletion. Even still, factoring in every other greenhouse gas, even if there were no cars on the roads everywhere in the road nothing would or could stop the natural occuring global warming due to currents from the warmer indian ocean flowing into the colder atlantic ocean. My theory is that cars only cause from 1 to 5% of the greenhouse gasses in the current state, as we really haven't had cars that long anyway.)
Thoughts/opinions? Anyone ever heard of these methane pockets?!
