Methane spends a lot less time in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide; about 20 years after it’s released, most of it will have decayed, while carbon dioxide lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. But methane also generates heat much more readily than carbon dioxide — about 80 times more in its first 20 years in the atmosphere — meaning it contributes significantly towards global warming in the short term. It is good news — sort of — because by the same token, any reductions in methane emissions will have more of an impact on the climate right away.
Oh fixing it is quite easy, it is just that people don’t want to.
While getting whole world to switch to cars with renewable power source is an enormous undertaking and we don’t know whether it is realistic, this could be fixed tomorrow. If only people wanted to.
It’s hard because people don’t want to.
We can’t even get motherfuckers to eat slightly less meat – they ain’t stopping till the subsidies stop.
You’re absolutely right, but to be fair, it’d probably take a full growing season to swap all of the animal feed farms to human foods - so fixed by this time next year perhaps
Still much quicker than renewables and global electrification.