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It is dangerous because it can replace the oxygen in your lungs and it is odorless resulting in asphyxia.

methane is a harmful gas that if inhaled, it can kill you. :-[

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Methane release by burning carbon dioxide and water which are greenhouse gases; but methane itself is a greenhouse gas.

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