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Not sure what you are arguing when you say methane “goes away”. It does not disappear, it reacts with oxygen in the atmosphere to become becomes carbon dioxide
by bognition 4y ago
Not sure what you are arguing when you say methane “goes away”. It does not disappear, it reacts with oxygen in the atmosphere to become becomes carbon dioxide and water.
- gitfan86 4y agoIt becomes much less of a greenhouse gas, does that make more sense?
- thatcat 4y agoNo
- irishsultan 4y agoYour original statement was that carbon dioxide stays for thousands of years, methane goes away after twenty. So the fact that "going away" in this context means "is replaced by carbon dioxide, which stays for thousands of years" seems a rather important part of the total warming potential of the two greenhouse gasses.