Yet most everything known and
published about methane indicates this scenario is very unlikely.
Not exact matches
Howie is on to talk
about the fact that Cuomo tried to have Fracking environmental studies changed before the were
published with regards to
methane gas.
At least two studies have been
published since 2010 that suggest reducing soot and
methane would cut human - caused global temperature increases by half of a degree Celsius, or
about 1 degree Fahrenheit, by 2050.
At least two studies
published since 2010 — one report from the United Nations Environment Programme in 2011 and a follow - up
published in Science last year — suggested that significantly reducing the emissions of soot and
methane could trim human - caused warming by at least 0.5 °C (0.9 ° F) by 2050, compared with an increase of
about 1 °C if those emissions continued unabated.
In 2014,
methane concentrations rose 12.5 parts per billion, and in 2015, 9.9 parts per billion, compared to an annual rise of
about 0.5 parts per billion a decade ago, according to a study
published this week in Environmental Research Letters.
According to the study
published recently in the journal Environmental Science and Technology,
about one third of the region's wells could be releasing between 3 and 17 thousand tonnes of
methane into the North Sea each year.
That means the United States is pumping
about 14 million tons more
methane than thought into the atmosphere each year, according to the findings,
published today (Feb. 13) in the journal Science.
The study, which has been
published in the journal Carbon Balance and Management, also showed that
methane is responsible for
about 16 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2006.