The thing about methane is that it only lasts a few years in the atmosphere before breaking down. This means that its impact is determined by the rate of release, unlike CO2, which accumulates, so that total cumulative emissions are what matter.
Cut the release rate for methane, and we can make a big difference, no matter when we do it.
The thing about methane is that it only lasts a few years in the atmosphere before breaking down. This means that its impact is determined by the rate of release, unlike CO2, which accumulates, so that total cumulative emissions are what matter.
Cut the release rate for methane, and we can make a big difference, no matter when we do it.
Methane breaks down into co2
It does, but almost all of the warming it causes is the short-term warming from the time it spends as methane