ClimateAdam 
Carbon dioxide is the main culprit behind climate change. But in second place is methane: a greenhouse gas stronger than CO2, that’s wreaking havoc on our planet. Humans are polluting the atmosphere with methane from a whole host of processes – like fossil fuels, farming, trash. But cutting these methane emissions would be a huge (and easy!) win. So why are emissions of this global warming driving greenhouse gas still going up?
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==MORE INFO==
IEA Methane summary https://www.iea.org/reports/methane-tracker-2021/methane-and-climate-change
https://www.iea.org/energy-system/fossil-fuels/methane-abatement
Review of methane sources and tackling them
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/293754865.pdf
On accounting for different warming effects https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-018-0026-8
Emissions to zero (idealised IPCC hypotheticals) https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/graphics/
Food and methane scuppering climate plans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01605-8
Rice & methane https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-stop-rice-fields-producing-so-much-methane/a-65331307
https://dialogue.earth/en/food/chinas-rice-farming-trials-cut-methane-emissions-and-increase-yields/
Satellite observations of methane leaks https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/esg-watch-new-satellites-mean-oil-gas-companies-will-have-no-place-hide-methane-2024-03-21/
Fossil fuel methane emissions going up https://www.iea.org/reports/global-methane-tracker-2024/key-findings
Why methane levels are going up (natural?) https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/16/methane-levels-are-rising-could-it-be-natures-response-to-warming
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150967/why-methane-surged-in-2020
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/15351/2022/
==THANKS==
Ozone hole from Nasa Goddard
Global warming visual from Nasa Climate Change
Power plant demolition from Mountain Top News
Leak footage from IBM Research and Gålfalk et al. (2015)
Greek floods from Weather wev
Wildfire footage from Science At Nasa
Methane map from ESA – European Space Agency
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oh wow I managed to publish this without a description, which I think might hurt the reach! if you're here watching and valuing this vid, do share it around to make sure more people still learn just how important methane is!
So glad I found you , Adam, you popped out of a NYT article I was reading , then from X to YouTube. You have a new fan from France.
I mentioned a concern for rising Methane to Michael Mann 6 months ago. He blocked me on X.
What do you help me 🙏 for climate change for india, l mean ……….>..,,,,❤
I pray that everyone is safe, sound, and know that climate change is real, and we need to wake up, and face the reality of climate change. We must stand up, and make a change right now, by protesting, and having our words be heard, and fight for humanity, and for the earth. God bless everyone, and make a stand against the corporations for lying and damaging our planet.
Once upon a time, it was called the "Greenhouse Effect" but there are now 7 billion people breaking wind now and that's a lot of methane in the air.
Is it Me-Thane or Meth-ane? Because when I heard this presumably Australian guy say Me-Thane, I knew I couldn't continue
The percentage of natural gas delivery networks and fracked petroleum wells can and do release methane in huge plumes visible with thermography that are present out to 3km from the well, depending on geology.
The problem is it is very, very profitable and that's why corporations should not exist.
Really enjoyed your video😃
Another source is melting tundra on the rise.
5:20 That turned out to not have much net benefit with seaweed, latest estimates showed are far lower than you stated, almost the exact inverse, since cows typically spend in pasture rather than feedlot especially in the Australian study, when you take that into effect it's around a 2.8% reduction.
Be vegan eh
Informative video, but the humor is awful. 😅
A factually wrong video at 4:35 ruminants do NOT add NEW methane they are PART OF THE NATURAL CARBON CYCLE !
Sequestered carbon fuels are THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF METHANE !
Anyone watching this who isn't vegan yet… why?
The fight against global warming is lost from the get go, we aint gonna slide past 1.5°C we will slide past 4.5°C, at this moment and for the rest of the century industrial civilization is more or less incompatible with CO2 emission reductions
Consider that
1-The primary energy production of germany and denmark with ample solar and wind subsidies and high taxes on everything that emmits co2, is still 90% oil gas and coal
2-A barrell of oil does the work of a human during 10 years, there is no way people will renounce to their current comfy living and go back to preindustrial
3-China who already emmits like half of thr world co2 emissions will probably increase that, china is halfway to be a developed country and the most likely thing that will be accompanied with an increase in the consumption of oil and gas
4-Add India who is going to consume well over two billion tons a year before 2030, and then add pakistan,southeast asia, bangladesh and subsaharan africa, emissions can easily double before the end of the century
5-Efficiency is not a saviour, between having the same stuff and consuming half as much energy, or having twice the stuff and consuming the same energy, people will choose the latter, the Jevons Paradox
An special example is the shipping, trucking and plane industry, which are far FAR more efficient than 60 years ago, so we made Trucks heavier and faster, ships bigger and theres more of them and now everyone can go in a plane…
I am a natural grassland rancher with a program with Bird LIfe International and we have net negative emissions.
Hi Adam. Lets say this year there will be so many tipping points. It would be smart to be in contacte with me.
Great video, and congrats on receiving your 50,000th subscriber!
Enough with all the "me, me, me, me, me", Thane!
You can not fight agains a molecula… It's too small.. .;)
At least Australia is doing something. This year the Australian government announced that it will greatly increase its gas exploration and extraction! They tell us that this will get us to net zero. Go figure.
Your videos are really helpful but sometimes you drags one thing for a bit too long which makes the video boring and makes confusion, please stick to the point and make videos shorter for easy to understand
blowing up the "north stream" mehane pipeline is equivalent to quadrillions cow farts. Thanks Biden
So what's worse; cows eating grass and burping, or having to ship/truck seaweed to farms throughout the country?
We are slowly can kicking 2030 to 2050. Which is what I said was going to happen. I dont think we will actually get a decrease in co2 and methane emissions in my lifetime let alone get to net zero
Here in California USA the law requires us to put kit hedn scraps in the yardwaste bin rather than the garbage bin. So that kind of gabage stays out of the landfill.
So, mr ‘climate scientist’, cow burps are warming the planet are they? 😂
Let see you deal with real scientists like on the Tom Nelson series.
Adam, you need to demand a refund for your educational misguidance.
Methane is what is emerging from thawing permafrost – gigatons of it.
50.000 subscribers reached 🎉 well done!
"Colossal Mules" 🙂 I am sure they generate lots of methane.
what about the tundra!!!
Methane oxidizes in the atmosphere under sun light.?
What is the target/ideal co2 ppm? Commercial greenhouses supplement co2 to over 1000 ppm for robust plant growth .
QUESTION what happens to the methane and the CO2 when they "leave" the atmosphere?. I have read that methane and O3 in the upper atmosphere are subject to a lot of lightening bolts which causes them to react forming water and (oh no) CO2. The CO2 in the atmosphere is in a kind of dynamic equilibrium with the CO2 in the sea… But there isn't a lot to actually remove it except photosynthesis. I'm not very confident that these explanations are right. Could you comment? (Good luck with moving.!).
Thanks Climate Adam – I hope move goes/went well!
Brilliant! Thank you Adam… I look forward to it. Keep up the good work!
So damn informative, thanks Adam!
Methane gets trapped in underground and underwater bubbles. It's made by a huge number of anaerobic microbes as metabolic waste. The warming oceans are emitting it, the melting permafrost is emitting it. We have passed a threshold and many old pockets of methane are being released to the surface. Natural methane release in the oceans and Arctic dwarf human emissions now and will triple the current methane in the atmosphere over the next hundred years, even if human methane release was zero.
Thanks
Melting permafrost is going to be the #1 source of methane as the Arctic melts.
I've read that about 23-25% of all the expected warming is attributable to land use changes, a kind of urban heat island effect writ laarge. But I don't know exactly what it takes into effect. Do you have a video on the subject?
It's unnerving to think that a large amount of methane is leaking out of the extensive natural gas infrastructure we have in the US. I really hope this amount can be quantified soon. Statistics that show how greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector in the United States have decreased due to the switch from coal to gas only take into account the fuel burned at the power plant. With just those numbers, it looks pretty good. But there have been a couple studies suggesting that leaking methane could mean that CO2 equivalent emissions from the electricity sector are as bad as it would be if we were mostly burning coal like we were 15-20 years ago. Hopefully data from MethaneSat later this year will shed some light on this.
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Did you know that everything that decays on this planet produces methane gas? Did you know that decaying wood and leaves are major contributors. The amount of methane they are talking about controlling is less than 10%. A new discovery of methane aggregates in the oceans could change everything. Methane is native to our planet.