community.nytimes.com - 10/22/2009
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Stop gas leaks = Good. But, man-made CO2 is 0.117% of greenhouse gas and it does NOT "remain in the atmosphere a century or more once released"; it is absorbed back into the sea, plants, earth and animals as part of the earths natural balance. CO2 in the atmosphere has been both higher and lower ...
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Keeping Natural Gas in Pipelines, Not the Air
Dot Earth —
... , which are normally invisible but revealed clearly thanks to infrared photography. Michael Schlesinger, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, noted when he saw the images how they powerfully illustrate just how potent methane is as a greenhouse gas . The opacity to infrared wavelengths that makes it visible to such cameras is the property that causes it to trap radiation that would otherwise head toward space. This technology, in essence, is kind of akin to the thought experiment ...
Keeping Natural Gas in Pipelines, Not the Air
Green Inc. —
... , which are normally invisible but revealed clearly thanks to infrared photography. Michael Schlesinger, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, noted when he saw the images how they powerfully illustrate just how potent methane is as a greenhouse gas . The opacity to infrared wavelengths that makes it visible to such cameras is the property that causes it to trap radiation that would otherwise head toward space. This technology, in essence, is kind of akin to the thought experiment ...
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