Record levels of greenhouse gas methane are a ‘fire alarm moment’

However, the rate at which concentrations are rising is concerning researchers, with 2020 marking the biggest annual jump since records began in 1983.at the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. However, based on flasks of air analysed up to the end of September, he is expecting a large rise.

Two possible drivers are wet conditions in the tropics, which are common when, as now, the world is experiencing a weather pattern called La Niña, and . “Do these conditions play a role in the increase in 2021? Perhaps, but it is too soon to know,” says Dlugokencky.

Just wait for all that permafrost melt..

If you've ever been to my mother-in-law's house you know that's nothing.

lockdown caused methane? or more volcanoes errupted under lockdown

It's a bit like the scenario of not striking a match in a petrol station. But our whole planet is becoming a tinderbox. Dread to think of the global implications of this.

EamonRyan Why is methane CH4 always counted in parts / billion rather than % terms? Is it because a large increase in % terms, of a very small number, is still a very small number? Methane makes up a tiny 0.0002% of Earth’s atmosphere - FakeScience

This is very bad news indeed. You can’t control global warming, if methane release starts to runaway.

But if the world was in lock down because of the Wuhan virus how could that be? Where is the methane coming from?

Over 20 years, the methane would trap about 80 times as much heat as the CO2. Over 100 years,

EamonRyan

I have been passing wind an awful lot lately.

We're pretty much screwed when the permafrost thaws

Not good. Not good at all.

History of the humankind God /Climate Change Consciousness /Quantum Energy Quantum Physics Tesla /Universe Conscious water

Hah. A small spark and...

As the ice melts ... guess what is being released into the atmosphere !!

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