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#ClimateCrisis #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #GreenhouseEffect
Somebody more knowledgeable please check my math here...
CO2 makes up ~79% of Greenhouse gases
CH4 (methane) makes up ~11.5%
Let's round off and say 7x more CO2.
*However*, CH4 is 28x more effective greenhouse gas.
So even at our current rates, CH4 is causing 4x more damage to our climate, than CO2.
If that's correct...shouldn't we be focusing a lot harder on CH4?
And please tell me I'm not the first to notice this.
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Okay...after further review...absolutely this, times 100.
Forget about CO2. Seriously. Just completely forget about it.
Methane is up to 80x worse. Cutting 1 ton of CH4 is about as effective as 80 tons of CO2.
N2O is up to 270x worse.
The various CFC-category gases are literally 1000s of times worse.
For various reasons, reducing emissions of these other gases is often easier than reducing CO2...in many cases, a *lot* easier.
Yes, of course we also want to quit putting CO2 in the air.