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🛰️View From Above: In 2022, countries around the globe saw firsthand the effects of climate change.
This week's thread looks at the increasing impacts of a warming planet, the role satellites play in IDing these impacts, and why cutting methane is a key near-term solution.
This week's thread looks at the increasing impacts of a warming planet, the role satellites play in IDing these impacts, and why cutting methane is a key near-term solution.
The last 8 years were the hottest on record – once again underscoring the need for methane action. 🔥 Because methane has 80X the warming power of CO2 for its first 20 years in the atmosphere, acting now to #CutMethane will have immediate climate benefits. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Satellite imagery showed massive deforestation in the Amazon over the last two decades – but was also able to help identify key elements needed to stem forest losses, including giving indigenous groups' control over land and designating protected areas. 🌳 anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/01/not-al…
~THREAD~ For nearly a decade @TXsharon and our field team have captured proof that #oilandgas is polluting more methane than they admit. Check the receipts below vvvv earthworks.org/the-power-of-b…
Methane is a GHG 86x more potent than CO2 and it is polluted at every step of the oil and gas extraction process. But science shows that poor reporting (and the forces of vested interests) keep much of this pollution (as much as half) unreported /2 nature.com/articles/s4146…
In some states we find that companies are routinely polluting methane without permits - completely off the books - while agencies turn a blind eye /3 earthworks.org/publications/f…
THREAD: Polluters (and their trade groups) are running a full fledged misinformation campaign to convince @POTUS and his @EPA to adopt new methane rules that would allow millions of wells to go unregulated. Here’s the scoop:
2) @POTUS Day 1 executive order called on the @EPA to create new rules to #cutmethane pollution from new and existing #oilandgas sources and the first draft of those rules are set to be released later this month. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
3) According to @EPAMichaelRegan these rules will be the "most stringent" rules to #cutmethane from oil and gas. And that apparently has the #oilandgas lobby scrambling…
Congratulations to @RepDebHaaland for being named to lead @Interior, and for becoming the 1st Native American cabinet member in US history. An excellent choice for the department, which oversees our nation's vast public lands & plays a major role working alongside tribes (thread)
.@RepDebHaaland has been a leading advocate for New Mexicans’ health, climate and wellbeing through her support of rules to #CutMethane waste and pollution from oil and gas
Under her stewardship, @Interior will have an opportunity to tackle methane emissions on public lands and ensure our nation’s resources serve the public
This is not what #ActOnClimate means.Stop pretending that fracking under any regulatory framework is consistent with IPCC findings. It’s not. This is the wrong ask.
Let’s be clear:
• From drilling to flaring to venting to condensing to compressing to pipeline, fracking is inherently leaky. Methane leaks are built into the engineering.
• Even if ALL the leaks were fixed, the CO2 emissions alone + ever-increasing # of wells =climate fail
• From drilling to flaring to venting to condensing to compressing to pipeline, fracking is inherently leaky. Methane leaks are built into the engineering.
• Even if ALL the leaks were fixed, the CO2 emissions alone + ever-increasing # of wells =climate fail
• Fracking wells leak methane long after they are decommissioned. Plugging doesn’t stop the emissions bc methane seeps into the atmosphere from around the outside of the well casing as cement shrinks and crumbles with age. There is no #CutMethane fix for this problem.
