Clearly, failure to control methane emissions leads to climate impacts that some consider unnatural.
Methane is exacerbating unnatural disasters – Australia must get serious about reducing emissions
Published: July 31, 2024 6:24 AM (AEST) Leslie Hughes Honorary Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
One of the most important achievements of the 26th United Nations Climate Conference (COP26), held in Glasgow three years ago, was the launch of the Global Methane Commitment. The goal is to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030.
Methane (CH₄) is the second largest climate pollutant after carbon dioxide (CO2). In the words of John Kerry, one of the architects of the pledge and the then US presidential climate envoy, “Addressing the methane problem is the fastest and most effective way to reduce short-term warming and make 1.5°C manageable.”
Australia signed a methane commitment in October 2022. To date, Australia has no official methane reduction target or agreed strategy for tackling this dangerous pollutant.
A Climate Council report released today sets out actions Australia can take now to reduce methane emissions. We need to keep working hard.
The danger of being ignored: Why we need to talk about methane
Most people know that carbon dioxide is the number one culprit of climate change. but There's another harmful gas seeping into our atmosphere and warming our planet: methane. It is the second most dangerous climate pollutant and is contributing to the unnatural disasters we are experiencing now and in the coming decades.
There is growing recognition around the world that methane pollution is a huge contributor to climate warming, especially in the short term. that is because Methane is very efficient at trapping heat. It breaks down in the atmosphere much faster than carbon dioxide, remaining only for about ten years. but Over a 20-year period, it causes about 85 times more climate damage than carbon dioxide. Even if methane does break down, it will increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. That’s why cutting methane pollution now is critical to limiting the build-up of harmful greenhouse gases that fuel global warming.
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Find out more: https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/dangerously-overlooked-why-we-need-to-talk-about-macet/
The full report is available here.
Unfortunately, the film and report don't seem to offer anything new. They want something to be done about dairy cows (forcing farmers to feed seaweed?), food waste and the fossil fuel industry. Organic bins. Food supplements for dairy cows. and halting approvals of new coal, oil and gas.
Pretty much what they've been complaining about.
I'm not sure how seaweed supplements will get to farmers without a lot of fossil fuel-driven transportation, and all this additional complexity of waste disposal will require a lot of infrastructure and energy, but coalition thinking has never been a prominent issue in climate Qualities exhibited by fanatics.
