claim: While methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, there is over 200 times more CO2 in the atmosphere.
evidences.evidence_id: Atmospheric methane:20
evidences.article: Atmospheric methane
evidences.evidence: Methane in the Earth's atmosphere is a strong greenhouse gas with a global warming potential (GWP) 104 times greater than CO2 in a 20-year time frame; methane is not as persistent a gas as CO2 (assuming no change in carbon sequestration rates) and tails off to about GWP of 28 for a 100-year time frame.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Atmospheric methane:237
evidences.article: Atmospheric methane
evidences.evidence: Methane is a strong GHG with a global warming potential 84 times greater than CO2 in a 20-year time frame.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Atmospheric methane:4
evidences.article: Atmospheric methane
evidences.evidence: That is, over a 20-year period, it traps 84 times more heat per mass unit than carbon dioxide (CO2) and 32 times the effect when accounting for aerosol interactions.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Atmospheric methane:81
evidences.article: Atmospheric methane
evidences.evidence: Since methane gas is twenty-five times stronger (for a given weight, averaged over 100 years) than CO 2 as a greenhouse gas; this would immensely magnify the greenhouse effect.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Natural gas:217
evidences.article: Natural gas
evidences.evidence: Natural gas is thus a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide due to the greater global-warming potential of methane.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS