A sprawling, aggressive effort to measure the climate footprint of natural gas production has yielded striking results: methane emissions from the Barnett Shale in North Texas are at least 90 percent higher than government estimates. That conclusion comes from a peer-reviewed study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper is the most sweeping study to emerge from the Environmental Defense Fund's $18-million project to quantify methane leaks from the natural gas industry. It was written by 20 co-authors from 13 institutions, including universities, government labs, EDF and private research firms.
0.00001 x1.9
Wow. So what?
0.00001 x1.9
Wow. So what?
On the other hand, Schwarzenegger said that we must become vegetarian, because livestock burp so much methane.
I'm doing all I can about that by eating as many of them as I can.
I did a quick look for the raw numbers, and only saw scary percentages and the misuse of GWP.
Where did you find those numbers, and what are the units?
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