Do Human Farts contribute to glabal warming ?

Question

and if u've never farted or parped for the ladies then you lie !!!

coz there's alot of methane in an average day going up there !

if you dont "fart" (or parp for the ladies) you lie !!!!!

Answer 1

I suppose technically it is, but it is a fact of life we unfortunately cannot change. We can however change the amounts of methane we release via other sources though.

Answer 2

Did you read Boris Johnson's column in today's Daily Telegraph, then? It was about offsetting your carbon dioxide footprint and he's suggestion was to kill a cow. Each cow produces 90kg of methane a year and as greenhouse gases go, methane is about 24 times worse than CO2. As there are about (well, give or take 1 or 2) 1.3 billion cows on this planet, then that's the equivalent of (let me work this out 90kg x 24 x 1,300,000,000) 2,808,000,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.

Now I guess human farts produce a lot less CO2 than cows, let's say just 0.001kg per year, per person. If we assume 6 billion humans that's still the equivalent of 144,000 tonnes of CO2.

Answer 3

Yes, but so does human exhaling for that matter. Some people have seriously made a issue over the amount of cow flatulence being released into the atmosphere.

Answer 4

Probably a tiny bit, it is methane gas. You should send this one to Mythbusters.

Answer 5

Actually i don't "parp" I pump :)
Why i say that i have no idea .

Answer 6

If the answer is yes...then can the passing of gass through articles of clothing be filtered through the same?

Answer 7

only a little bit but cows farts contribute a lot more

Answer 8

this would be a good question to address to David Cameron!

Answer 9

It does contribute, but very little. Damn good question, though.

Answer 10

Yes i understand there is from what i read so what do we do now ?