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At the COP 28 Climate Conference in Dubai, the fossil fuel companies are still wrangling about how they can increase their production while keeping the world from becoming a baked potato. One key way is to reduce direct methane leaks and emissions.
When it comes to methane gas — often incorrectly known as “natural gas” — we need to draw a sharp distinction between the gas that is burned and the gas that escapes into the atmosphere during extraction, transmission, and storage. Methane that escapes into the atmosphere is 80 times more powerful when it comes to causing the Earth to overheat than carbon dioxide. It doesn’t stay in the atmosphere as long, but while it is there it works overtime to heat things up.
For decades, oil producers have treated methane as an annoying nuisance….
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