Methane is a gas which is made up of one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. It is the same natural gas that is fractured, also known as fracking, to heat some people’s homes. It, non-intervened with by humans, exists naturally in the atmosphere along with various other gases. As the second gas that has the potential to be released by the permafrost it is the more damaging of the two. Unlike Carbon dioxide which only has two hydrogen bonds, methane has four. This means when short light rays pass through the atmosphere and bounce off the Earth’s surface they have trouble passing through the methane particles because they are now long light rays. So in the process as methane increases in the atmosphere, it could cause even more heat to be trapped
