Excuse me! The problem with methane gas

Useful Sites

Climate change science question and answer (Australian Government Department of Climate Change)

Presents a series of questions and answers regarding climate change. Question 16 provides a brief summary of the contribution of methane to the enhanced greenhouse effect.

Methane (BBC Weather Centre, British Broadcasting Corporation)

One of a series of pages on the greenhouse gases and climate change. Provides a brief summary of the role of methane in the enhanced greenhouse effect.

Methane UK (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

Links to sections of a report on methane as a greenhouse gas and strategies to reduce its impact. Chapter 2 covers the climate science of methane in detail.

Methane (Greenhouse gas online, United Kingdom)

Covers the sources and sinks of methane in clear language. The human impact and potential for control of methane levels are considered in each case.

Methane (United States Environmental Protection Agency)

Contains a range of information on the science of methane, sources and emissions of methane.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Global methane levels move upward again (News in Science, 16 December 2008)
Reports on an increase in methane levels after seven years of no growth.

Methane - The forgotten gas (Catalyst, 25 September 2008)
Covers the role of methane as a greenhouse gas and Australian measurements of historical methane levels from rock and ice samples.

Animal farming and greenhouse gas emissions (Science Show, 9 August 2008)
Reports on the contribution of animal farming to greenhouse emissions and how they could be reduced.

Melting permafrost spews out more methane (News in Science, 7 September 2006)
Reports on a study showing increasing emissions of methane from the thawing of Siberian lakes.

Methane eruption blamed for mass extinction (News in Science, 4 September 2003)
Proposes that an explosive release of methane could have caused a mass extinction of species at the

Climate change in Australia (Australian Government)

Provides a reliable and concise summary of climate change science relevant to Australia. Includes information on the predicted effects of climate change on different regions of Australia.

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Posted November 2009, edited August 2012.