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Old 06-19-2017, 01:25 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ecky View Post
Expect the rates aren't the same. Sure, methane exists in nature, but if we're producing more of it than would naturally happen, there will be more of it in the atmosphere.

See what's wrong with that argument?
What's wrong is that the rate of biogenic (from cows, termites, wetlands &c) methane generation is not more than would naturally happen, just as CO2 emission from animal metabolism is not more than natural. It's the non-natural things, like natural gas leaking from oil wells, that's causing the increase.
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