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Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Post by hartator »

CrzyLngPwd wrote: post #3
alecco wrote: post #2

Meanwhile, memory holed: >The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea... https://archive.ph/Yb20f

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Post by hartator »

poszlem wrote: post #4
alecco wrote: post #2

Meanwhile, memory holed: >The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea... https://archive.ph/Yb20f

Building a gas pipeline with an adversary to disadvantage your eastern neighbors was likely a bad move.

Yes, destroying things is always the right side of history.

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Post by 486sx33 »

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... 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-a...

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Post by Alifatisk »

CrzyLngPwd wrote: post #3
alecco wrote: post #2

Meanwhile, memory holed: >The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea... https://archive.ph/Yb20f

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Was it the US?

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alecco wrote: post #2

Meanwhile, memory holed: >The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea... https://archive.ph/Yb20f

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Post by jethkl »

Better realtime data may improve actionability, and the big audience reach may influence the overall narrative. Independent measurements are extremely important to have for science and data validation. But monitoring methane has been going on for a few years. NASA even has a portal:

https://methane.jpl.nasa.gov

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Coperni...

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Post by ed_balls »

alecco wrote: post #2

Meanwhile, memory holed: >The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea... https://archive.ph/Yb20f

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Post by bryanlarsen »

Alifatisk wrote: post #14
CrzyLngPwd wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Was it the US?

No, current consensus is that it was likely the Ukrainians. They are the obvious suspects, but they were initially ruled out because it was thought they didn't have the capabilities.
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