do the gases form dead bodies contribute to global warming???

Question

if so??? how??? and what gasses produce???

Answer 1

Hey, this is actually a really good question -- you should ask a pathologist and an environmental scientist together. Pose the what gasses are produced bit to a pathologist (find one at a hospital website (here's one, try www.fahc.org, that's where I just got my MD, and the pathologists there are great), or any other hospital website; then ask an environmental scientist why, if there are six billion people on the planet right now, and we are all going to die one day, and presumably we all had two parents.... well, I have no idea how many rotting corpses there are on the planet, but someone ought to know how much of a contribution this makes.

Now I'm really intrigued.

You know, pose this to Dr. Charles Hulse at www.fahc.org. Here's his web page: http://pdo.fahc.org/provider/detail.jsp?sphyId=18739&spracSite=FAHC$~$MFP& He's a family pracitioner interested in climate change. Tell him Julie Hoover sent you.

:)
-Julie

Answer 2

The gases from dead bodies are carbon dioxide and therefore it contributes to global warming as carbon dioxide is the main cause of global warming.

Answer 3

Dead bodies of animals do contriute to global warming. How because there is carbon dioxide in an organisms body, from animals to trees, and when they decay, carbon dioxide is released in the air.

Answer 4

They bloat because of C02 I think, and C0, and other gases. It's not much of a contributer, I'd say without looking at a graph maybe around .05%? But nothing significant, compared to breathing, farting, and of course emissions.

Answer 5

actually they do.... the gas is methane, a hydrocarbon. it's highly flamable. if you were to light a fire in it expect a flare up. so anyways, almost all compounds with carbon depleat the ozone layer. the gasses in a dead body are more concentrated than they would be if a person were living. they're more detremental to the ozone layer.

Answer 6

Actually, gases from live bodies contribute to global warming...if you believe in that.
Every time you exhale you exhale CO2....so if you believe that CO2 is contributing to global warming, well then..............

Answer 7

yes they do
when humans are decomposing we produce hydrogen sulphide which is deteriemental to the environment