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By Pete Smith,David Reay,Andre Van Amstel

ISBN-10: 1138866938

ISBN-13: 9781138866935

ISBN-10: 184407823X

ISBN-13: 9781844078233

Methane is a robust greenhouse fuel and is anticipated to be liable for nearly one-fifth of synthetic worldwide warming. in line with kilogram, it truly is 25 occasions extra strong than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon -- and worldwide warming is probably going to reinforce methane unlock from a couple of resources. present usual and man-made resources comprise many the place methane-producing micro-organisms can thrive in anaerobic stipulations, rather ruminant farm animals, rice cultivation, landfill, wastewater, wetlands and marine sediments.

This well timed and authoritative publication presents the one complete and balanced review of our present wisdom of resources of methane and the way those may be managed to restrict destiny weather swap. It describes how methane is derived from the anaerobic metabolism of micro-organisms, even if in wetlands or rice fields, manure, landfill or wastewater, or the digestive platforms of livestock and different ruminant animals. It highlights how resources of methane may perhaps themselves be tormented by weather switch. it really is proven how quite a few element assets of methane have the capability to be extra simply addressed than resources of carbon dioxide and as a result give a contribution considerably to weather swap mitigation within the twenty first century.

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