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Re:Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading by belorn on Sunday December 15, 2019 @05:10PM (#21799332)
During fracking, the industry standard is a loss of about 3% that leaks into the atmosphere. 3% might not sound much but at 28 times the effect of C02 it has a measurable effect on global warming.

I don't think I have seen any climate change research that say we can reach the goals and increase methane emission. If anything most seems to say that we need to reduce both CO2 and methane. Call me very skeptical to the claim that we could increase out methane emission by anything near 100% and still manage, but I am open to see sources.

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Re:Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading by marcosdumay on Sunday December 15, 2019 @09:58PM (#21800495)
Hum... What goals?

I can't find a clear source for worldwide emissions, but every site I can find [1] [2] makes methane responsible for around 10% of the total heating. Because of the short life, doubling the emission rate would make it responsible for much less than 20% of the total heating.

The choice of focusing on 80% of the problem or 20% of it is a non-brainier. Now, I have no idea if it will satisfy your goal.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases

[2] (This one needs some calculation) https://undark.org/2019/05/13/methane-global-warming-climate...

> but at 28 times the effect of C02

By the way, it's more like 200 times (so 20000%). It is still not enough to focus on.

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