What do we do with a problem like methane? On the back of nine successive record-warming months, attention is turning to meaningful ways to address climate change’s second most important gas. While CO2 accounts for 66 per cent of the increase in heat to the world’s surface, methane emissions contribute 16 per cent.
Despite its smaller market share of climate change emissions, methane has accounted for roughly 30 per cent of global warming since pre-industrial times, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and is proliferating faster than at any other time since record-keeping began in the 1980s.
Even as CO2 emissions decelerated during the pandemic-related lockdowns of 2020, atmospheric methane shot up and now stands at its highest level for 800,000 years. Methane was present at 800 parts per billion (ppb) in the pre-industrial atmosphere; today, the figure is 1,800 ppb.
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