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One more key contributor (since CH4 aka natural gas is so much worse as a green house gas compared with CO2 when released than burned or kept in the ground): H
by redwood 10y ago
One more key contributor (since CH4 aka natural gas is so much worse as a green house gas compared with CO2 when released than burned or kept in the ground):
Human activity, ranging from fossil fuel extraction, to natural gas usage, has massively led to a large amount of natural gas leakage across the network. All this leaking adds up and is an "unseen" but incremental accelerant on these problems (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/25/california-gas-leak-was-the-worst-man-made-greenhouse-gas-disaster-in-u-s-history-study-says/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...)
- supercarrot 10y agoFossil fuel extraction leakage isn't that significant, although they seem to get the blame quite often. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35659947 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35659947 This "giant" leak isn't even close to the amount of cow methane farts of this world annually. When it comes to methane, our desire for flesh is to blame. Greenhouse emissions are larger in the animal agriculture sector than in all transportation combined. Transitioning to a plant-based world culture would give us a bit more time. But eventually just the heating and transportation could be enough to blame.