

I think people would be surprised, but if that can’t be recovered, it is FAR better for global-warming if it is burned-off, than if it is allowed into the atmosphere as methane:
Methane’s CO2-equivalent, in the short-term, is over 80x as strong as CO2.
So, that’d mean about 4,872,000 tons of CO2-equivalent-release, if 60kt of methane were released.
https://ghginstitute.org/ipcc-ar6-methane-gwp-tables/
see the ROW “Methane” & the COLUMN “GPW-20” which is the 20-year-equivalent to CO2.
See, also, in an earlier column, that its average lifespan is actually 11.8 years, so the 20y equivalent is underestimating its short-term effect, badly, since much of it has been destroyed in the upper-atmophere’s UV by 20y.
Just providing some counter-intuitive context.
That scientist who published that methane HAS to be stopped: leaks of it are simply TOO effective at wrecking our viability, & then his paper was attacked by ALL the establishment/incumbents/lobbyists … he was telling the truth.
Please read that abstract, to understand that this isn’t internet-bullshit, that is science.
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I’m Canuck.
I don’t hate USians…
( ALL people who are citizens of the Americas, South, Central, OR North, are Americas citizens, aka Americans. )
I hate both the national-narcissism which eventually blossoms inyo totalitarianism/cults, including the MAGA-cult,
& the abomination-methods of the MAGA-cult, the zionism-cult, the christofascism-cult, the islamism-cult, the manosphere-cult, the confucian-supremacism-cult, the various ideological-cults, the Physicalist-Matetialist-Existentialist Scientism cult which disallows all evidence falsifying it ( as Rupert Sheldrake has pointed-out there are multiple experiments which falsify that ideology/religion, but the evidence is simply ignored/denied, axiomatically ), etc.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, Mamdani ( & his Mom the documentary-director who made him become who he is, from what i’ve read ), & Snowden,
… ALL deserve The Order of Canada ( or whatever our highest-honour is ), for their loyal & upright representing of grass-roots people of their-own country!
That work of theirs makes our world better,
& Canada, being in our world, benefits from all such upright good work, everywhere.
Beauty, eh?
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.
🙏