Soaring methane levels have scientists increasingly concerned that the human-caused climate crisis has triggered a vicious feedback loop, potentially resulting in unstoppable planetary warming.
Tuesday, “The growth of methane emissions slowed around the turn of the millennium, but began a rapid and mysterious uptick around 2007.”
“The spike has caused many researchers to worry that global warming is creating a feedback mechanism that will cause ever more methane to be released, making it even harder to rein in rising temperatures,” the outlet noted. “Potential explanations [for the methane surge] range from the expanding exploitation of oil and natural gas and rising emissions from landfill to growing livestock herds and increasing activity by microbes in wetlands.
“Is warming feeding the warming? It’s an incredibly important question,” said Nisbet. “As yet, no answer, but it very much looks that way.” “Warming feeding the warming”: Methane concentrations in the atmosphere raced past 1,900 parts per billion last year, nearly triple preindustrial levels
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