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by tomp 2799 days ago
> Actually, they're not increasing. I looked it up

> And given a 9 year lifespan for methane

Can you please provide your sources? If this is true, it's not that worrying...

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Someone else referenced wikipedia on methane in the thread somewhere. Surprised me, too.

For cattle, got the numbers from the industry, which doesn't seem to have a particular agenda in this link... http://beef2live.com/story-world-cattle-inventory-year-0-111...

According to this[1] the half life of methane in the atmosphere is 7 years.

[1]https://phys.org/tags/methane/