Originally published at: Julia Conley: Potent Heat-Trapping Methane Emissions Saw 4th-Largest Annual Increase in 2022, NOAA – Progressive Dreamers
Published originally at Common Dreams on April 7, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Driven primarily by human activities including fossil fuel extraction, methane levels in the atmosphere had their fourth-largest annual increase in 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday. Scientists detected 1,911.9 parts per billion (ppb) of methane in…