Methane Clips: September 19, 2023

 

How Much Methane Leakage Is Too Much? According to the Medium, “Recently, researchers affiliated with Brown University, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Harvard, NASA JPL ,and Duke University published a paper on the implications of methane leakage, ‘Evaluating net life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions intensities from gas and coal at varying methane leakage rates.’ The takeaway that’s being promoted in headlines and articles is that natural gas is as bad as coal with as little as 0.2% upstream methane leakage.” [Medium 9/18/23 (=)]

 

Leaders See Hope In Tackling Deadly Climate Change And Public Health Problems Together. According to The Hill, “A U.N. report earlier this month showed the world is way off track in its efforts to fulfill the 2015 Paris agreement and limit future warming, said Adnan Amin, the CEO of the upcoming climate talks, called COP28. So upcoming negotiations in Dubai are ‘one of the last chances you get to course-correct,’ he said. And a day devoted to public health ‘is where you can actually get traction for change.’ ‘Lives and livelihoods are on the line all over the world,’ said Sultan Al Jaber, the COP28 president. He said 7 million people a year around the world die from air pollution, which is not technically the same as the carbon dioxide and methane that cause warming but often comes from similar sources.” [The Hill, 9/18/23 (=)]