ClimateAdam Jun 14, 2024 #ClimateChange
Carbon dioxide is the main culprit behind climate change. But in second place is methane: a greenhouse gas stronger than CO2, that’s wreaking havoc on our planet. Humans are polluting the atmosphere with methane from a whole host of processes – like fossil fuels, farming, trash. But cutting these methane emissions would be a huge (and easy!) win. So why are emissions of this global warming driving greenhouse gas still going up?
MORE INFO== IEA Methane summary https://www.iea.org/reports/methane-t… https://www.iea.org/energy-system/fos…
Review of methane sources and tackling them https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/29375…
On accounting for different warming effects https://www.nature.com/articles/s4161…
Emissions to zero (idealised IPCC hypotheticals) https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/graphics/
Food and methane scuppering climate plans https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155…
Rice & methane https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-stop-ric… https://dialogue.earth/en/food/chinas…
Satellite observations of methane leaks https://www.reuters.com/sustainabilit…
Fossil fuel methane emissions going up https://www.iea.org/reports/global-me…
Why methane levels are going up (natural?) https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/1… https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima… https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/2…
THANKS== Ozone hole from Nasa Goddard Global warming visual from Nasa Climate Change Power plant demolition from Mountain Top News Leak footage from IBM Research and Gålfalk et al. (2015) Greek floods from Weather wev Wildfire footage from Science At Nasa Methane map from ESA – European Space Agency
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