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One of the darkest times in human history… the collapse of the USSR and its consequences have been tremendous overall.
Carbon dioxide is more important than methane for long-term global warming, but methane plays an important role in the shorter term. One molecule of methane has more heat-trapping power than CO2, and its half-life in the atmosphere is just a decade, meaning its levels can fluctuate.
Doesn’t methane turn into CO2, making it at best just as important? Or is it that 12 tons of methane turn into one of CO2 or something?
https://climatechangeconnection.org/emissions/co2-equivalents/
84x over the CO2 equivalent over 20 years.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
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