Not exact matches
The researchers measured
emissions rates
of 34 grams
of methane per second — 100 to 1,000 times
greater than those estimates.
Kessler adds, «Our results agree with this conclusion, showing that ancient
methane emissions to the atmosphere in an area that is experiencing some
of the
greatest warming today, is actually quite small, especially when compared to more direct
emissions from human activities.»
«The overall significance is that although we already know that reducing
methane emissions can bring
great societal benefits via decreased near - term warming and improved air quality, and that many
of the sources can be controlled at low or even negative cost, we still need better data on
emissions from particular sources,» Duke University climate sciences professor Drew Shindell said.
Even without figuring these surprising
methane emissions, I think these fuels may possibly entail
greater GHG
emissions than they offset — in the manufacture
of pesticides, fertilizers, farm equipment; irrigation water & energy to pump it; transporation
of bauxite from S. America (harming rainforests) to make farm equipment, ag schools, secretaries, and all the paper work at each stage... the list goes on & on & on.
And finally, what about Mark's questions (# 3) and other factors not discussed here — do all these effects re Arctic ice lead scientists to believe there is a
greater and / or earlier chance (assuming we continue increasing our GHG
emissions — business as usual)
of melting hydrates and permafrost releasing vast stores
of methane into the atmosphere than scientists believed before the study, or is the assessment
of this about the same, or scientists are not sure if this study indicates a
greater / lesser / same chance
of this?
Methane emissions from fossil fuel industry and natural geological leakage are up to 110 per cent greater than current estimates, according to a detailed analysis of methane sources published in Nature thi
Methane emissions from fossil fuel industry and natural geological leakage are up to 110 per cent
greater than current estimates, according to a detailed analysis
of methane sources published in Nature thi
methane sources published in Nature this week.
In addition, the discrepancy in
methane source estimates is particularly pronounced in the south - central United States, where we find total
emissions are ∼ 2.7 times
greater than in most inventories and account for 24 ± 3 %
of national
emissions.
The IPCC Third Assessment Report's (TAR's) projections for
methane atmospheric concentrations, carbon dioxide
emissions and atmospheric concentrations, and resultant temperature increases constitute the
greatest fraud in the history
of environmental science.
That's why a
great deal
of attention was paid last week to the results
of a two - day aerial survey over gas fields in southwestern Pennsylvania that calculated
emission rates
of methane (the main component
of natural gas) from two well pads still in the drilling phase.
The need for
greater certainty in the
methane budget, as well as the need for better information upon which to facilitate
methane emissions reductions, has motivated the large effort EDF has been leading, one involving dozens
of academic experts.
A
great illustration
of the difference between what I try to do and most blog output can be seen in the latest
of a string
of critiques
of my recent posts on
methane emissions from the Arctic at a climate blog called Idiot Tracker.
point out that isotopic composition
of airborne
methane has become lighter since 2008, indicating
greater wetland / ruminant
emission.
Let's err on the side
of flamboyance (
great word in this context) and say the concentration
of methane in the air goes up by a factor
of 10 for the duration
of the extra
methane emission (meaning that the lifetime doubles).
And finally, what about Mark's questions (# 3) and other factors not discussed here — do all these effects re Arctic ice lead scientists to believe there is a
greater and / or earlier chance (assuming we continue increasing our GHG
emissions — business as usual)
of melting hydrates and permafrost releasing vast stores
of methane into the atmosphere than scientists believed before the study, or is the assessment
of this about the same, or scientists are not sure if this study indicates a
greater / lesser / same chance
of this?
Because
of methane's
greater greenhouse potency, the warming potential
of the
emissions measured during the second period greatly exceeded the potential cooling produced by the uptake
of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis.
Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions
of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping,
methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction
of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance
of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out
of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion
of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half
of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden
of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence,
Great Lakes drop, greening
of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion
of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides
of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)
Subtitle C: Additional Greenhouse Gas Standards -(Sec. 331) Amends the CAA to require the EPA Administrator to promulgate New Source Performance Standards (NSPSs) under such Act for specified categories
of stationary sources that: (1) have uncapped GHG
emissions greater than 10,000 tons
of carbon dioxide equivalent and are responsible for emitting at least 20 %
of the uncapped GHG gas
emission annually; or (2) are responsible for at least 10 %
of the uncapped
methane emissions.
But the findings
of the Alberta study clearly suggest that actual
methane emissions from the upstream oil and gas sector (excluding mined oil sands) are likely to be at least 25 to 50 per cent
greater than estimated.
He also found that some
of those animals, cows in particular, emit a
great deal
of methane which is a very potent greenhouse gas
emission.
The IPCC Third Assessment Report projections for atmospheric
methane concentrations, CO2
emissions and atmospheric concentrations, and resultant temperature increases (i.e. 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius from 1990 to 2100) constitute the
greatest fraud in the history
of environmental science:
«Humans added plenty greenhouse gases before industrialisation» The author's quote
methane emissions annually were
greater during the Roman Period than that
of all the current world landfill sites.
The tar sands in Canada are an environmental disaster in other ways, but the incremental
emissions of greenhouse gases are small compared to the far
greater threat
of massive coal expansion in China, or potential fugitive
emission of methane from fracking, or massive deforestation in Indonesia and Latin America, or any number
of other major sources
of greenhouse gases.
In my opinion, eating vegetarian results in a
greater production
of methane emissions.
gain off - topic, but this happens to be about what happened at a particular time long ago
of great inerest to me: Higher Wetland
Methane Emissions Caused by Climate Warming 40,000 Years Ago http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100624144105.htm
The study found evidence
of even
greater discrepancies in individual sectors;
methane emissions from livestock, for example, were estimated at twice the level estimated by EPA.
The authors estimated that the region's
methane emissions were 3.7 million metric tons
of CO2 equivalent, almost five times
greater than the 0.75 million metric tons previously estimated (according to the study,
methane emissions from oil and gas operations are 2.3 - 7.5 times
greater than earlier estimates).
But it was the oil and gas sector — the largest source
of methane emissions in the United States — where the variance was
greatest, and which is the
greatest cause for concern.
Overall, the study found that
methane emissions from all U.S. sources — including agriculture, oil and gas development, landfills, and coal mining — are 50 percent
greater than estimates from the EPA Inventory, which recently lowered its estimate
of methane emissions from oil and gas systems.
But it seems pretty clear that small - scale urban farm biogas digestion has
great potential for gleaning energy from urban waste streams, recapturing valuable nutrients and returning them to the soil, and
of course keeping rotting matter out
of landfills7mdash; preventing both
methane emissions and leaching in the process.
That ESAS lacks Mars» mound - density makes the scaling no less valid, the
methane - supersaturation
of 80 %
of ESAS bottom waters (Shakhova et al., 2010) showing that frost mounds are not the sole venting pathway, gas migration pathways growing in capacity annually in the areas
of greatest emissions (Shakhova et al., 2017).
Evaluating a 1 % reduction in current global
emissions, benefits with a high discount rate are
greatest for reductions
of co-emitted products
of incomplete combustion (PIC), followed by sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and then CO2, ammonia and
methane.
Indeed, according to the EPA, so - called «enteric fermentation» in cows and other ruminant animals, like sheep and goats, contributed 26 percent
of the country's total
emissions of methane, a hard - hitting greenhouse gas with much
greater short term warming consequences than carbon dioxide does (though the latter packs a far
greater long - term punch).