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Climate Management Issues
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Climate Management Issues

by Julie K. Gines
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
470 pages
16h 40m
English
CRC Press
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49The Role of Greenhouse Gases
in which to digest their food. These include cattle, sheep, goats, camels,
bison, and musk ox. In their digestive system, their large fore- stomach hosts
tiny microbes that break down their food. This process creates methane gas,
which is released as atulence. Livestock also emit methane when they belch.
In fact, in one day a single cow can emit one-half pound of methane into the
air. Each day 1.3 billion cattle burp methane several times per minute.
Methane is also a by-product of natural gas and decomposing organic mat-
ter, such as food and vegetation. Also present in wetlands, it is commonly
referred to as “swamp gas.” Since 1750, methane has doubled its concentra-
tion in the atmosphere, and it ...
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ISBN: 9781439861066