The U.S. monitoring network is the main player in
measuring global methane, Dlugokencky said.
On April 11, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) President Fred Krupp announced the organization's plans to create and launch a new satellite to monitor and
measure global methane emissions — from space.
Not exact matches
In this study, we created new per - animal emissions factors — that is
measures of the average amount of CH4 discharged by animals into the atmosphere — and new estimates of
global livestock
methane emissions.»
Overall, the new
measures would lower
global anthropogenic emissions of
methane by 50 % and of black carbon aerosols, also known as soot, by 80 %.
To get a
global look at
methane concentrations before, during, and after the plateau, the team amassed atmospheric
methane concentration data from
measuring stations from Canada to China to Australia, spanning a period from 1984 through 2015.
An EDF - backed
methane science effort involving the ten Oil & Gas Climate Initiative companies is underway to better
measure and report
global emissions.
We present the first
global analysis of the costs of abating the estimated 76 million tonnes of
methane emitted worldwide each year in oil and gas operations, which suggest that 40 - 50 % of these emissions can be mitigated at no net cost, because the value of the captured
methane could cover the abatement
measures.
The
Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network
measures the atmospheric distribution and trends of the three main long - term drivers of climate change, carbon dioxide (CO2),
methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), as well as carbon monoxide (CO) which is an important indicator of air pollution.
May's assertion that «CO2 is, of course, the principal «greenhouse gas» in the atmosphere» is just as questionable, given that water vapour has far more influence on the
global greenhouse, and other gases such as
methane are more potent,
measure for
measure.
It's said by suspected fossil fuel lobbyists and the idiots Trump has appointed to oversee environmental agencies that «scientists don't agree» over
global warming, actually the problem is that the results don't agree, inasmuch as the graphs tend to be polynomial — also it's quite difficult to
measure methane concentrations, it appears, as they vary considerably according to altitude.
The satellite will
measure only emissions of
methane, the powerful greenhouse gas responsible for roughly one quarter of the man - made
global warming we currently experience.
Using
methane's 20 - year GWP — a
measure of the short - term climate impact of different GHGs — increases the share of oil and gas
methane to over 8 % of
global GHG (with emissions of 5,650 Mt CO2e), the equivalent of about 40 % of total CO2 emissions from
global coal combustion in 2012.