{"id":122664,"date":"2023-12-20T22:48:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T22:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=122664"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:48:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T22:48:58","slug":"earth-could-turn-into-uninhabitable-hell-in-200-years-and-farts-are-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/world-news\/earth-could-turn-into-uninhabitable-hell-in-200-years-and-farts-are-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth could turn into uninhabitable hell in 200 years \u2013 and farts are to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Earth could be cooked into an uninhabitable hell in 200 years \u2013 and old uns\u2019 burps and farts are partly to blame. <\/p>\n

    Old folks, pumping out more methane and nitrous oxide in parps, belches and breath than youngsters, is adding to global warming. <\/p>\n

    A study, led by Dr Nicholas Cowan from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, found a third of 328 breath samples contained methane. But only a quarter of folk under 30 produced it compared to 40% of those aged 30-plus.<\/p>\n

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    Those who did not exhale methane in their breath still probably released the gas \u201cion flatus\u201d or burps and farts, the study said.<\/p>\n

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    Meanwhile, more eggheads have warned a dramatic rise in global surface temperatures could lead to our oceans evaporating. <\/p>\n

    And humanity\u2019s death spiral could be triggered by water itself with vapour trapping heat on Earth like a rescue blanket. <\/p>\n

    Guillaume Chaverot, at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, said: \u201cThere is a critical threshold for this amount of water vapour beyond which the planet cannot cool down anymore.<\/p>\n

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