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sithelephant t1_ituas5p wrote

Reply to comment by but-imnotadoctor in Methane ‘Super-Emitters’ Mapped by NASA’s New Earth Space Mission by CurtisLeow

He's forgetting to multiply the methane emissions by their impact.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#methane

'Methane's lifetime in the atmosphere is much shorter than carbon dioxide (CO2), but CH4 is more efficient at trapping radiation than CO2. Pound for pound, the comparative impact of CH4 is 25 times greater than CO2 over a 100-year period.1

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