It was a huge methane release, but it isn't continuous. The US oil and gas industry (all by itself) emits 8,000,000 metric tons of methane every year, and globa

It was a huge methane release, but it isn't continuous. The US oil and gas industry (all by itself) emits 8,000,000 metric tons of methane every year, and global emissions are vastly greater. Ongoing emissions are worthy of our attention because we can do something about them on a forward-looking basis; Nord Stream isn't because we don't have a time machine.