For all the talk about carbon dioxide's role in climate change, we hear surprisingly

little about methane.

Some say it represents an even greater threat, but if that's so, why isn't it getting

more attention?

Today, we're going to see what the science really says and what we should be doing about

it.

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The latest season is full of juicy topics like, remember the viral phenomenon in optical

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What can we learn from the rise and fall of one of the most well-known personal injury

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Why you need to care about methane?

The causes of climate change are important to those seemingly few of us who note that

extreme weather events get more common and deadly and expensive every year, that glaciers

are permanently disappearing worldwide, that ice sheets at the poles are becoming smaller,

that our local weather events, be they flooding drought, heat waves, or ice storms, are worse

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