Oh my God run away methane gas! it’s not like I haven’t been hearing about this for a decade! how could we stop this oh wait we can’t now we took too long. Goodbye food production around the equator
Don’t worry, the ultra-rich have stolen enough wealth from the rest of us that they won’t be bothered by it for a long time. Crisis averted!
Key message remains that methane is “the strongest lever we can quickly pull to reduce warming”.
It’s not runaway, but there is a positive feedback of methane increasing its own lifetime by using up atmospheric oxidising capacity. I note also, new to me - “an increase in decomposition rates from wetlands as higher temperatures interacted with La Niña conditions in the tropics” - so during El Niño we get more CO2 from forest fires, but during La Niña more CH4 … - how to lock-in that carbon ? I also wonder how much methane is coming from Russia recently, whose government cares the least of all.
