Posted on 02/18/2019 11:48:58 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Dramatic rises in atmospheric methane are threatening to derail plans to hold global temperature rises to 2C, scientists have warned.
In a paper published by the American Geophysical Union, researchers say sharp rises in levels of methane - which is a powerful greenhouse gas - have strengthened over the past four years. Urgent action is now required to halt further increases in methane in the atmosphere, to avoid triggering enhanced global warming and temperature rises well beyond 2C.
“What we are now witnessing is extremely worrying,” said one of the paper’s lead authors, Professor Euan Nisbet of Royal Holloway, University of London.
Methane is produced by cattle, and also comes from decaying vegetation, fires, coal mines and natural gas plants. It is many times more potent as a cause of atmospheric warming than carbon dioxide (CO2).
Some researchers believe the spread of intense farming in Africa may be involved, in particular in tropical regions where conditions are becoming warmer and wetter because of climate change. Rising numbers of cattle - as well as wetter and warmer swamps - are producing more and more methane, it is argued.
“We have only just started analysing our data but have already found evidence that a great plume of methane now rises above the wetland swamps of Lake Bangweul in Zambia,” added Nisbet.
Scientists warn that there could be a more sinister factor at work. Natural chemicals in the atmosphere - which help to break down methane - may be changing because of temperature rises, causing it to lose its ability to deal with the gas.
Our world could therefore be losing its power to cleanse pollutants because it is heating up, a climate feedback in which warming allows more greenhouse gases to linger in the atmosphere and so trigger even more warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Co2 scare didn’t work. Try methane.
Don’t forget water vapor, the biggest greenhouse gas there is. One day they will tax exhaling and hydrogen cars because they add H2O to the air.
I blame the cows.
“also comes from decaying vegetation”
i guess the first step in “solving” this problem would be to bury hundreds of billions of acres of protected marshland, estuaries, swamps, and bayous ...
What is the plan with farting cows?
Do they plan to visit every farm and ranch in America, and do a mass slaughter of all cattle? They never said exactly what they planned to do about this problem.
Won’t work. Gas always finds a way...
Udder madness.
Time to Outlaw Compost Bins.
The Gaurdian - one of the world’s biggest BS factories.
I was watching some news report recently, and they were stating as a fact that we have 12 years to deal with climate change, otherwise we are past the point of no return.
So we see, Ocasio-Cortez says something off the top of her head about how many years we have left, and it becomes accepted as fact. See how propaganda works?
Light a match.
Problem solved.....................
My bad on that. Had a big pot of chili over the weekend...
decaying vegetation, ESPECIALLY in old-growth forests. Oh the humanity!
The next step is to let all the people starve. Food is going to destroy the planet.
They are already talking about too much Nitrogen causing a “footprint”.
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