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Methane concentrations have been accellerating the past decade, so better do it quickly: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4/ https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends
by _y5hn 4y ago
Methane concentrations have been accellerating the past decade, so better do it quickly:
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4/ https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4/
- OrvalWintermute 4y agoThat depends on which sources you are measuring. Many swamps produce an obnoxiously huge amount of methane, so much so you can smell it everywhere "Swamp gas". Across the planet we have turned profligate methane producing swampland into land for cities and farmland.
- ncmncm 4y agoYet, many of these same swamplands are also sequestering carbon at a prodigious rate. People dig up and burn the peat they once sequestered it all in, for fuel. So, we would probably be better off with more of even-though-methane-burping swamplands than less.
- autosharp 4y agoWhile there might exist a lot of smelly swamps, CH4 is odorless so not a super stinky swamp smell substance.
- OrvalWintermute 4y ago> While there might exist a lot of smelly swamps, CH4 is odorless so not a super stinky swamp smell substance Swamp gas has its smell from the associated compounds made with it, just like the methane we use has its stink from Ethanethiol additives, similarly, sulfur based. Still methane though!
- Jensson 4y agoThat is because Asia started adding more cattle. USA and Europe are not the biggest factors here unlike other global warming sources, since the amount of meat each person can consume is limited. Convincing Americans to stop eating meat wont do much when India and Brazil has twice as much cattle as USA does and continues to add more. You'd need to convince India to stop having so many cows, good luck with that. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cattle-livestock-count-heads https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cattle-livestock-count-he...