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Just putting stuff in landfills results in methane production, which would gradually leak out and cause even more global warming than CO2. You‘d need to invest
by manmal 4y ago
Just putting stuff in landfills results in methane production, which would gradually leak out and cause even more global warming than CO2. You‘d need to invest in making things air tight, ideally over hundreds of years.
- WalterBright 4y agoMethane has a half life in the atmosphere of 12 years. Gradually leaking methane is way down the list of problems.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoMethane is one of the top problems and low hanging fruit to tackle. https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-methane https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-methane > Methane is the second most abundant anthropogenic GHG after carbon dioxide (CO2), accounting for about 20 percent of global emissions. Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Over the last two centuries, methane concentrations in the atmosphere have more than doubled, largely due to human-related activities. Because methane is both a powerful greenhouse gas and short-lived compared to carbon dioxide, achieving significant reductions would have a rapid and significant effect on atmospheric warming potential. https://www.globalmethanepledge.org/ https://www.globalmethanepledge.org/ > In advance of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP 26), the United States and the European Union jointly launched the Global Methane Pledge, which asked countries to band together and commit to a collective goal of reducing global methane emissions at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030