Ironically most of the atmospheric methane comes from Asia and India and it’s rice paddies which are giant anaerobic fermentation pits on a mega engineering scale. The other huge source is swamps in delta / bayou country plus huge swaths of peat lands in the northern climates particularly Canada, Russia and Siberia. Tropical Africa and Latin America also : a be huge tropical swamp/peat lands. All those biomes all day every day bubble methane to the sky and also into the permafrost and seabeds where historical peat lands have been flooded with the melting of the glaciers during our interglacial period. Seabed hydrates form and are the largest single carbon reserves in the planet at least ten times liquid hydrocarbons could be 100 they have not been 3d seismic mapped enough. Trouble is it’s near impossible to produce them stably one little instability and boom outgassing and anything above that wellbore is having a very bad day. Humans will likely never produce methane hydrates at industrial levels due to their instability curve being so close to their metastable state in nature. Hydrates hold enough methane to actually mess up over a short time like 50 years the climate it’s happens in the past a massive hydrate instability blowout and a greenhouse swing by 5 or more C. Humans need to be careful with mass hydrates for this reason.
Ouch. Hurt my brain.
Bottom line, nothing we can do about it much less cause it.
They farm rice big time in Central Arkansas. But not in paddies per say.
Mosquito hell.
As you go south it gets very boggy.