Probably not. Similar to the way that it takes a minute to warm up after you put on a blanket, there’s a multiyear lag on the order of 10-20 years between emissions and warming impact.
Andrew Baxter, director of energy strategy for the Environmental Defense Fund, said he estimated that about 115,000 tonnes (250 million pounds) of methane had been released into the environment. To date, this may be the largest gas leak in human history. According to German estimates, about 300,000 tonnes (660 million pounds) of methane, which is one of the most potent greenhouse gases (more potent than CO2), was emitted into the atmosphere. This amount of gas is enough to affect the environment for another 20 years, with an annual gas emission capacity of 5.48 million combustion-engined cars.
Certainly a disaster but a pretty small contribution in the grand scheme of things.
I know the 2022 ICCP climate report stated methane mitigation is vital to stopping rising temps.
Then we blow up Nordstream and it create a methane plume in the Baltic that created an energy crisis in the highest consumption continent. Now gas is being moved by tankers from south and east Asia, and North America into Europe.
The point someone made earlier about the short “earth time” being too fast to notice this type of change.
I wonder if the release of more Methane than any event in recorded history between September and November of 2022 had any connection to this.
Probably not. Similar to the way that it takes a minute to warm up after you put on a blanket, there’s a multiyear lag on the order of 10-20 years between emissions and warming impact.
Methane only stays in the air for about 12 years, but it absorbs more energy than carbon emissions, so it’s impact would be seen quicker, wouldn’t it?
Good point, consider me owned by facts and logic.
It very well might but I can’t find any global concentration data that recent.
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Certainly a disaster but a pretty small contribution in the grand scheme of things.
do you have a source for that (not doubting just wanna read more)
I genuinely don’t know, probably not.
I know the 2022 ICCP climate report stated methane mitigation is vital to stopping rising temps.
Then we blow up Nordstream and it create a methane plume in the Baltic that created an energy crisis in the highest consumption continent. Now gas is being moved by tankers from south and east Asia, and North America into Europe.
The point someone made earlier about the short “earth time” being too fast to notice this type of change.
I don’t think it helped the ocean