Marine shellfish can affect the climate warming?

People say that global warming, what exactly is what reason is caused? Scientists recently found that seafood may also be one of the "culprit".

Scientists found that Europe's Baltic exist a large amount of methane. Methane is a kind of dangerous greenhouse gas, the greenhouse effect is more than 20 times of carbon dioxide.

When studying these sources of methane gas, the scientists used isotope tracer method analyzes the Baltic sea sediments. The results showed that the sediments containing clam methane emissions is 8 times of pure deposits. They judged, oysters, mussels and other Marine creatures in the Baltic sea is a large amount of methane emissions. In the further investigation and study, the scientists found that oysters, mussels and other Marine creatures of methane accounts for 10% of global methane released every year. These Marine organisms bacteria release a large amount of lead to greenhouse gas, methane and nitrous oxide. Methane gas in the water first, and then emerged into the atmosphere, from then to accelerate the process of the global warming.

Even more worrying, the Baltic sea area accounts for only 0.1% of the area of the world's oceans. This means that the bottom of the sea around the world, these harmless shellfish biology are discharged into the atmosphere in large amounts of greenhouse gases, and we don't know anything about it.

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