The Pros And Cons Of Methane

Do people know what happens to things that they throw away? They think it gone for good, but scientists worry that if methane increases in the atmosphere, it could cause more warming than carbon dioxide when they burn the fossil fuels. It is important to know because of the methane from landfills because it is estimated that it causes between thirty and seventy million tons of emissions every year (Reay, n.d.). It is necessary to understand the sources and advantages, and disadvantages, of methane because it is dangerous because it can affect the environment.

Consistent with “Overview of Greenhouse Gases”, methane is a gas that has come from coal, natural gas, and oil, and it can come from the decay of landfills. Climate Change Division (2014) points out that landfills are massive amounts of garbage that are buried within the earth. Dave Reay concludes that

Reay (n.d.) reports, that “the time methanogens is generally much reduced and, where the soil dries out sufficiently, rice paddy soil can become a temporary sink for atmospheric methane,” or within the cows, and burning things and it can come from termites when they eat food because the bacteria inside of them. Speaking on additional sources of methane, Horita is quoted in “Methane on Earth” written by Tenenbaum (2005) that the methane can come from some bacteria on the earth that produced it. Kevin Schaefer is an NSIDC scientist who studies the carbon cycle. He asserts that there are some sources of methane in the arctic in deep of the earth or underwater. When the temperature changes then the methane will go out from the ice. He states that methane can also come from the remains of the frozen animals and the dead plants and from volcanoes and forest