NIfty! Is this data available to the general public? There's some places I'd like to check.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
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Yes. Among others https://www.ghgsat.com/en/pulse/
The resolution isn't great for the free account, and one can definitely see where the methane emissions are coming from. I checked a few of the oil fields in my state. :-( At least it's not as bad as TX. smh
There's also something of a tradeoff between spatial and temporal resolution. There are instruments with much higher spatial resolution but don't get anything like daily updates
because i am an idiot, i thought satellites were somehow causing methane emissions and was super curious how that was possible.
It isn't, i am as i said stupid
sat contrails!
Chemtrails*
Sattrails. Aka saturation. SEE! IT ALL FITS!
Meat and dairy industry. Don't need satellites to know that.
Also leaking oil and gas infrastructure, as well as rice paddies among other sources. Tools like this are useful for doing things like enforcement of the methane emissions tax the US recently imposed on oil and gas facilities
Carbon tax! Carbon tax!! Carbon tax!!! CARBON TAX!!!!
It's methane, and in the US a methane tax on the biggest emitting oil and gas operations just went into effect
Yeah, I could have said CO2e, but that's just not as much fun to chant.
Could we … burn it out of the atmosphere?
It oxidizes after a few years; problem is that we are adding more at a rate faster than it breaks down
How about drone strikes then? Like big undeclared man made sources of methane get a drone up the corn hole.
Three types of problems:
- oil and gas facilities with a leak. You may release more methane by expanding the hole
- cows. The cattle themselves are innocent. It's the people raising them are the problem
- insurance: one off attacks don't do much as a result. It takes repeated and sustained harm to shut thigns down, which means you're likely to end up up in prison
Can you explain the cow comment further please?
Cows use bacteria in their digestion to break down ceulose into something they can digest. Those bacteria produce methane, which the cows burp out.
Killing a few cows accomplishes nothing; you need to get people to stop raising them.
Not op, but: Cows emit methane, but that's just their natural state as they fart. The problem is how many we have in the meat production industry
Someone correct me, but I think that was the gist.
Or did I understand you wrong? :-\
According to the reports, the source appears to be...
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