Scientists investigating marine life in the Baltic Sea have found mussels,oysters and clams are emitting greenhouse gases – but cows still trump themSwedish scientists have found that flatulent shellfish are creating huge amounts of greenhouse gases, main to a predictable slew of comments approximately farting cockles and clams. But beneath the schoolboy humour, or there is a serious point. The two gases in question – methane and nitrous oxide – are potent agents of climate change,with a warming potential 28 and 265 times greater than carbon dioxide respectively.
Scientists studying the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden have found that shellfish are producing one-tenth of all the greenhouses gases released there – the equivalent to the amount produced by 20000 cattle. If the same situation is being replicated around the rest of the world’s seas and oceans, we have a serious problem.
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Source: guardian.co.uk