Methane, a key component of natural gas, is 84 times more potent than carbon but doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere before it breaks down.
"Methane reductions have to be one part of a transformative global effort to phase out deadly fossil fuels in favor of truly clean renewable energy," Siegel said in a statement."Anything less puts us on a catastrophic path to an unrecognizable world."
also found that slashing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, agriculture and other human sources could slow climate change by as much as 30%.The global surface average for carbon dioxide last year was 414.7 parts per million, an increase of 2.66 parts per million over the 2020 average, the agency said. The measurement marks the 10th consecutive year that carbon dioxide rose by more than 2 parts per million, the fastest rate of increase since monitoring began 63 years ago.
While there's been some debate on the cause of the ongoing rise in methane emissions, carbon dioxide emissions have always been the main driver of human-caused climate change, NOAA said. "The effect of carbon dioxide emissions is cumulative," Pieter Tans, a senior scientist with the Global Monitoring Laboratory, said in a statement.
"About 40% of the Ford Model T emissions from 1911 are still in the air today," Tans said."We're halfway to doubling the abundance of carbon dioxide that was in the atmosphere at the start of the Industrial Revolution."
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