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Has it been? How so?

This potent greenhouse gas has been ‘widely’ underestimated, study finds

Parts of the U.S. may be emitting much more of one of the most potent greenhouse gases than previously thought, according to new research.

Satellite observations suggest that methane emissions in urban areas may be “widely underestimated” – up to 80% higher than noted in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory, an annual report that accounts for total greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sinks for all man-made sources in the U.S., according to a paper published Wednesday in Science.

Researchers analyzed satellite images taken by the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on the Sentinel-5P satellite and found that emissions from 12 major urban areas – New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Miami, Houston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Boston, Detroit and Cincinnati – were emitting up to 80% more methane than reported by the EPA, according to the study.

The finding suggests that urban sources of methane, such as landfills and natural gas infrastructure, play a larger role in near-term climate warming than previously realized, Xiaolin Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in atmospheric science at Harvard University and lead author of the paper, told ABC News. (snip)

Urban areas have complex, population-driven methane sources, including landfills, natural gas distribution systems, wastewater treatment plants and residential combustion, Wang said.

So, basically, urban areas which are dominated by Democrats who make up the vast amount of Warmists are horrible people who want to destroy the planet, burn it to a cinder? Huh. How about that!

Really, though, we’ve know about the problem with methane, especially as it relates to agriculture and landfills, for quite some time. This was a big focus of early IPCC reports, but, no one wanted to focus on it because 1) people will make lots of fart jokes and 2) unlike CO2, it couldn’t be fearmongered in a way to take away money, freedom, and life choices from people by The Government. You can’t force citizens to give up their fossil fuels and ride the bus over methane. Yammer about methane and people worry about being able to eat, hence why only the cultiest of culters talk about taking on the agriculture sector.

Meanwhile, climamoonbats

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