In what ways and to what extent do port-a-potties contribute to Global Warming?

Question

I want only serious and scientific answers.

Answer 1

Port-a-potties are a true villain to the environment. They are scandalous and should be removed for good. The excrement in these potties are one of the greatest enemies of the earth. This ecrement releases harmful green house gasses while decomposing in the chemical ses pool. We must declare a jihad on the potties. FOR GAIA.

Answer 2

Holy Shumoli!!!  Where have you been???

Don't you realize how much ENERGY it takes to make one??

Lol!

Answer 3

To a trivial extent.  There just aren't enough of them to matter.

What matters is producing gigatonnes of greenhouse gases by burning fossil fuels.

This is science and what counts is the data, not people's intuition.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

Answer 4

The methane generated at an average baseball game from these blue boxed stinkers could light up Vegas for a month or bring children to their knees screaming and gasping for air.  Rather than use a porta pottie, I believe that corks should be handed out instead.

Answer 5

We can transport our pot of warming to areas that need it more than we do.......Like Seattle.

Answer 6

Well ... everything causes global warming, so why would porta-potties be exempt?

Porta-potties vent methane directly to the atmosphere, unlike toilets that move waste in a bit more closed system to a central waste water treatment system.

Especially the porta-potties that sit in the sun day after day.

Answer 7

if you want serious answers, you really should ask serious questions-the question is without a reasonable correlation coefficient, that means that the cause and effect relationship your question implies does not exist in a measurable way.

Answer 8

IDIOT!