- We really need to talk about methane.
If you are following the public conversation around climate change then you know the focus has mostly been on reducing CO2 emissions,which is urgent.
But if we wanna cool down the planet,we should also be paying attention to methane emissions.
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,IPCC for short, found that methane emissions have made a huge contribution to climate change.
The report suggests that 30 to 50% of the current rise in temperatures can be attributed to methane,which as you might know is a short-lived gas that comes from agriculture,cows,leaks from the oil and gas industry.
zombie fires in the Arctic,and landfills.
Cutting methane emissions won't be the end-all solution, but collective action could buy us some time in keeping the average global temperature increases below the 1.5 degrees Celsius mark,compared to pre-industrial levels because in some parts of the world rising temperatures risk detonating a methane time bomb of ancient greenhouse gas deposits.
And we definitely don't want that to happen.
So today I'll break down some of the IPCC report findings,the threats methane poses,and solutions to underline why we need to be talking about methane as much as we're talking about CO2.
(dramatic music) According to the IPCC report, methane has been calculated to have added approximately 0.5 degrees Celsius to global warming.
