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Its not only methane, we need to be tracking things like CFC 11 & 12 leaks ON A CONSTANT BASIS. There is still consistent production in china of this and many o
by 486sx33 3y ago
Its not only methane, we need to be tracking things like CFC 11 & 12 leaks ON A CONSTANT BASIS. There is still consistent production in china of this and many other banned gases.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/impact/stories/greenhouse-gas/ https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/impact/stories/greenhouse...
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/603350 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/603350
Reporting their findings again in Nature (2019), the group showed that CFC-11 emissions in eastern mainland China were around 7,000 tonnes per year higher in 2014–2017 than in 2008–2012. While this finding did not explain the full increase in CFC-11 levels seen since 2013, at 40–60% of the global rise, it represented a very significant fraction.
Crucially, the researchers also showed that the increase occurred in a specific region, primarily the north-eastern provinces of Shandong and Hebei.
https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/chinese-selling-r12-as-r134a/ https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/chinese-selling-r12-a...
- finfrastrcuture 3y agoAgree, but let's not pass over that this is a great first step!
- SECProto 3y agoWhile true that they are concerns, the first article you linked notes that those started to be clamped down on 6 years ago - would be good to have an update. And also, the scale of methane leaks compared with cfc11/12 means that even though they have ~3-4x the GWP of methane, the impacts of poorly tracked methane leaks are astronomically higher.