The world's "newest" worst polluter: plants!

New source of global warming gas found: plants

German scientists have discovered a new source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in its impact on climate change.

The culprits are plants.

They produce about 10 to 30 percent of the annual methane found in the atmosphere, according to researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.

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Keppler and his colleagues discovered that living plants emit 10 to 100 times more methane than dead plants.

I love that. It's a "new source." Apparently plants have never existed or emitted methane before.

Now, I wonder how long it will take for the rabid environmentalists to sweep this under the nearest rug.