Climate change deniers are going to have field day with this one.
Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought
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Re: Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought
#12Summary:
The effect is 30% less than previously thought, and global warming is still really really really important.
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#13We just had a conversation the other day about climate change and methane, and some people were saying 20x as strong as CO2, and others were saying and sometimes correcting them to 28.
According to this article the correct answer is 20. That’s still over an order of magnitude difference. It still doesn’t change the priorities much, it means you can leak 40% more methane from a system before it’s worse that coal, but we aren’t usually measuring these sorts of problems in 2 decimal points to begin with.
Re: Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought
#14Summary: The effect is 30% less than previously thought, and global warming is still really really really important.
So the folks saying 20x may be right.
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#15Climate change deniers are going to have field day with this one.
I'm fine with that because they are becoming less relevant as increasingly extreme weather makes believers of skeptics
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#16Climate change deniers are going to have field day with this one.
Denier is such a loaded word, call them skeptic. In this case at least, seems their skepticism was warranted.
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#17How will this affect internet arguments about going vegan?
The carbon footprint of cows is still horrendous.
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So we go from 28x to 20x. That changes the slope of a line but not the direction, or the magnitude.
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#19Re: Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought
#20Climate change deniers are going to have field day with this one.
As if the exact number matters to them.