Despite a global pledge by over 150 nations to cut methane emissions by 30% this decade, new research indicates that global methane levels have risen at unprecedented rates, reaching the highest in 800,000 years and following the most extreme emission scenarios projected by climate scientists.
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas with significant contributions from human activities like agriculture, fossil fuel extraction, and waste management, intensifies global warming, with current trends suggesting a potential rise in global temperature by over 3°C by century’s end, casting doubt on the feasibility of meeting the Global Methane Pledge.
Global methane emissions have surged, undermining efforts to curb climate change. Human activities continue to drive emissions from fossil fuels, agriculture, and wetlands, pushing warming beyond safe limits.
Methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change, have continued to rise without slowing down. Despite a global pledge by over 150 nations to reduce emissions by 30% this decade, new research reveals that global methane emissions have surged at an unprecedented rate over the past five years.
The trend “cannot continue if we are to maintain a habitable climate,” the researchers write in a Sept. 10 perspective article in Environmental Research Letterspublished alongside data in Earth System Science Data. Both papers are the work of the Global Carbon Project, an initiative chaired by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson that tracks greenhouse gas emissions worldwide…
SciTechDaily from Stanford University
Governments of Western Canada are effectively saying:
It is good for us to increase the production of fossil fuels. Future generations can pay the price.
Example:
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The other night on the international stage, the U.S. presidential candidates were proudly touting their respective actions to increase drilling and production of fossil fuels. The front runner for Prime Minister of Canada in the next election is running on a promise to “Axe The Tax”, and is openly calling for the opposition parties to trigger a “carbon tax election”. The current Prime Minister bought Canadians a $35Billion pipeline with money borrowed on their account to ship dirty tar sand fossil fuels. Here in BC, the current Premier announced yesterday that he will go along with whatever the feds decide to do on carbon pricing, while happily planning to enable greatly increased fracking (with concomitant increase in methane emissions) to support LNG production with subsidized power from a public energy company that would be bankrupt in any private setting.
I am having great difficulty discerning any light at the end of this smog-filled political tunnel.
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