{"id":144,"date":"2009-01-14T19:04:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/01\/14\/methane-sources-and-the-dark-side-of-solar\/"},"modified":"2009-01-14T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T03:04:07","slug":"methane-sources-and-the-dark-side-of-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/01\/14\/methane-sources-and-the-dark-side-of-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Methane Sources and the &#8220;Dark Side&#8221; of Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"plants.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/files\/2009\/01\/plants.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/files\/2009\/01\/plants.jpg\" alt=\"plants.jpg\" \/><\/a>Plants don&#8217;t produce methane after all, a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7827106.stm\">new study<\/a> out of the UK contends.\u00a0 The results refute a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/4604332.stm\">2006\u00a0report<\/a> that suggested\u00a0plants could account for almost half the world&#8217;s production of this potent greenhouse gas. But according to authors of the latest study, plants are more like little methane pipelines; they convey methane from the soil to the air, but they don&#8217;t actually produce it.<\/p>\n<p>No one said that climate change was simple.<\/p>\n<p>Neither are the solutions, apparently.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/environment\/la-fi-notsogreen14-2009jan14,0,1155706.story\">An article in the LA Times <\/a>reports on the &#8220;dark side&#8221; of solar, outlining the toxic materials used in cells, the difficulty of recycling some components, and the fossil fuels burned in the production and transportation process of cells and panels.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t let this weird weather confuse you either.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/green\/detail?blogid=49&amp;entry_id=34508\">As the Thin Green Line reports<\/a>, this week&#8217;s freezing temperatures in the Midwest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-global-chilljan13,0,6670092.story\">don&#8217;t mean climate change isn&#8217;t happening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/green\/detail?blogid=49&amp;entry_id=34508\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t blame the dephiniums. Plants don&#8217;t produce methane after all, a new study out of the UK contends.  The results refute a 2006 report that suggested plants could account for almost half the world&#8217;s production of this potent greenhouse gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,181,357,530,669],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power","tag-air","tag-ecosystems","tag-methane","tag-solar","tag-weather"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Methane Sources and the &quot;Dark Side&quot; of Solar | Climate Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/01\/14\/methane-sources-and-the-dark-side-of-solar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Methane Sources and the &quot;Dark Side&quot; of Solar | Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Don&#039;t blame the dephiniums. 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