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> Together, the Turkmenistan sources release an estimated 111,000 pounds of methane gas per hour If this is happening all the time, then the number of global m
by tanto 4y ago
> Together, the Turkmenistan sources release an estimated 111,000 pounds of methane gas per hour
If this is happening all the time, then the number of global methane emissions due to human activity on this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_emissions) Wikipedia page can't be valid.
Crazy how human negligence and greed might end humanity.
- tildef 4y agoMaybe I'm misreading something, but I don't understand the discrepancy. According to the wiki article, human output is 363 megatons/year. 111,000 lb/hr = 55.5 tons/hr = 0.5 megatons/year. Still a lot though!
- hwillis 4y agoTurkmenistan produces ~2.2% of global natural gas. Scaled across all producers, the result would be 20.2 MT/yr. Also, this is from a tiny part of Turkmenistan. > In Turkmenistan, EMIT identified 12 plumes from oil and gas infrastructure east of the Caspian Sea port city of Hazar.[1] That's around 50 miles away from the eastern edge of a 750 mile wide country which is covered in oil fields and refineries[2]. [1]: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/methane-super-emitters-mapped-by-nasa-s-new-earth-space-mission https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/methane-super-emitters-mapp... [2]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ippa-Uca/publication/315784033/figure/fig1/AS:655136900784128@1533208217115/Map-of-Turkmenistans-petroleum-and-natural-gas-industry.png https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ippa-Uca/publication/31...
- tanto 4y agoI think you are right! Apparently I was misreading. Still a lot unnecessary waste one might say.
- BbzzbB 4y ago>In 2019, [the President of Turkmenistan] appeared on state television doing doughnut stunts around the crater to disprove and correct rumours of his death.[14] Interesting proof of life.
- bertil 4y agoTurkmenistan is a country that keeps John Oliver excited. That's saying a lot.
- proee 4y agoFrom some Google Searches... 111,000 pounds of methane, multipled by factor of 80x, equal around 388M tons of CO2. A car produces around 4.6 tons of C02 per year. So this makes the emissions equal to about 84M cars driving around for a year. Google says there are around 1.46 Billion cars in the world. So this amount of greenhouse gas is around a 5.7% increase in our overall car emissions. (edited based on feedback below)
- ljf 4y agoQuoting here but; Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. Even though CO2 has a longer-lasting effect, methane sets the pace for warming in the near term. At least 25% of today's global warming is driven by methane from human actions.
- guelo 4y agoAlso, the extra warming from methane can trigger unrecoverable tipping points, such as melting ancient glaciers and permafrost, whose effects will last for thousands of years.
- chrisco255 4y agoWhat is meant by 25% of today's global warming? 25% from what baseline? From what median? From what time period?
- feoren 4y agoI'm guessing: rate of carbon-dioxide-equivalent being added to the atmosphere each year.
- strainer 4y agoIt is somewhat deceptive framing, because methane can not accumulate in the atmosphere the way CO2 does. Its levels in the atmosphere will break down relatively quickly if we reduce output, unlike CO2. But the present level of methane in the atmosphere basically captures about 30% as much heat as the present level of CO2. That still leaves CO2 as significantly larger immediate problem and the much larger future problem. We must do what we can, observing that every little counts - a little, and every lot counts a lot.
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