Reducing methane emissions now could help avoid a surge in methane emissions in the future….Daphne Wysham, chief executive of Methane Action, an nonprofit group, said the Global Methane Pledge is welcome but insufficient, noting that a U.N. report published before the pledge was signed called for a 45% emissions reduction by 2030….“There’s a recognition that […]
Read More… from In The Wall Street Journal: Methane Spaghetti
Controlling methane is important for future temperature increases. Methane removal technologies, if scaled globally, have the potential to prevent a global temperature rise of at least 0.3 degrees Celsius….Interest in GGR [greenhouse gas removal] is only going to grow. Impact investors, take note! Read the full article in Forbes. […]
In addition to climate reparations, the developed world also needs to put resources into climate restoration, so loss and damage don’t keep compounding beyond all possible compensation. Methane should be a primary focus of that effort. Given its outsized warming effect and its skyrocketing accumulation in the atmosphere, it’s the most powerful lever we have […]
Read More… from In The Hill: Climate Week congregants should address methane
If the warming Earth is already starting to release more methane, then this vicious cycle — in which warming triggers more warming — could become self-perpetuating. Although that moment could still be decades in the future, once that tipping point is reached, it will be very hard to reverse. Anticipating this, some groups are starting […]
The president is expected to sign into law the Inflation Reduction Act that includes massive support for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but the planet is warming so fast that we must find ways not just to add less pollution but to remove vast amounts of the most powerful greenhouse gases, like methane, to be able […]
In complement to anthropogenic methane emissions reductions, atmospheric methane removal has been proposed in order to: address methane sources difficult to prevent or avoid, deal with legacy emissions, remove increasing emissions from wetlands and water bodies induced by anthropogenic global warming, and prepare in case of a methane burst (rapidly thawing permafrost and catastrophic releases […]
Read More… from Catalogue of Research Funding Needs to Advance Methane Removal
Last year, the world-renowned former science advisor to the U.K., Sir David King of Cambridge University, declared we have five years left to solve the climate crisis and announced a new Climate Crisis Advisory Group to help reduce emissions, remove greenhouse gases already emitted and restore the climate to truly healthy temperatures and functioning. Read […]
Dr Gabrielle Dreyfus and Durwood Zaelke of Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) present the concepts and findings discussed in the paper “Mitigating climate disruption in time: A self-consistent approach for avoiding both near-term and long-term global warming”. The case is made that preventing the worst of climate disruption has two aspects: 1) decarbonization, […]
Bob Howarth, Phd of Cornell University discusses the importance of methane emissions reduction in relation to New York State’s goal of converting to 100% renewable energy sources by 2050. Professor Howarth emphasizes why “natural gas” is not a “bridge fuel to the future” and why it is important to phase out methane as opposed to […]
Read More… from VIDEO: How Best to Reduce Methane: A New York State Example
In this testimony, on behalf of Methane Action, a not for profit organization, I summarize our detailed recommendations for removing methane and other major greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and beginning the governance of these methods. These recommendations are from scientists, lawyers, economists and engineers with expertise in the rapidly evolving science and policy of […]