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Blast From the past: New study says methane emissions from gas and oil industry 60 percent higher than EPA reports

Climate, Corruption, Crony Capitalism, Health, News, Uncategorized / January 9, 2023

Trump Loosens Methane Standards In A Win For Oil & Gas … Sep 4, 2019 President Trump ordered a rollback of Obama-era methane regulations which obliged the oil and gas industry to monitor and fix methane leaks across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations. New study says methane emissions from gas and oil industry 60 percent higher than EPA reports Walter Einenkel Daily Kos Staff Thursday …

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Arctic Permafrost Is Melting so Fast, It’s Gouging Holes in the Landscape

Climate, News / January 2, 2023

“The impacts from abrupt thaw are not represented in any existing global model and our findings indicate that this could amplify the permafrost climate-carbon feedback by up to a factor of two, thereby exacerbating the problem of permissible emissions to stay below specific climate change targets,” said David Lawrence, of the National Center for Atmospheric …

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East Siberian Sea Is Boiling With Methane

Climate, Crony Capitalism, News, Resources / December 23, 2019

“Danish climatologist Jason Box succinctly summarized the concern for scientists five years ago. After Stockholm University scientists noticed methane bubbles rising from the sea floor, Box tweeted, “If even a small fraction of Arctic sea floor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we’re f***ed,” as IFL Science reported.” East Siberian Sea Is Boiling With Methane …

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Sea ‘Boiling’ With Methane Discovered in Siberia: ‘No One Has Ever Recorded Anything Like This Before’

Climate, News, Resources / October 11, 2019

“This is the most powerful gas fountain I’ve ever seen,” Semiletov said, according to a translation from the Moscow Times. “No one has ever recorded anything like this before.” Sea ‘Boiling’ With Methane Discovered in Siberia: ‘No One Has Ever Recorded Anything Like This Before’ Sea ‘Boiling’ With Methane Discovered in Siberia: ‘No One Has …

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‘Devastating’ Arctic warming of 9-16°F now ‘locked in,’ UN researchers warn

Climate, News / May 30, 2019

“As the report explains, warming in the Arctic is occurring at least twice as fast as warming across the planet as a whole, thanks to Arctic amplification. One reason for this amplification is that  when highly reflective snow and ice melts due to higher temperatures, it is replaced by the dark blue sea or darker …

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New study says methane emissions from gas and oil industry 60 percent higher than EPA reports

Uncategorized / June 22, 2018

New study says methane emissions from gas and oil industry 60 percent higher than EPA reports Walter Einenkel Daily Kos Staff Thursday June 21, 2018 · 12:56 PM PDT A new study published in Nature says that the amount of leaked methane is short-changed in the EPA’s own reporting of emissions. According to the study’s authors, …

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