Thread by @MethaneSAT

🛰️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.

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…

From space, Alaska’s beavers are as influential as wildfires. 🦫 Yes, you read that right – satellite researchers have been floored by how beavers migrating North as the Arctic tundra warms are visibly transforming Alaska’s terrain w/ thousands of dams. sciencealert.com/satellite-imag…

Satellite imagery is providing a growing body of evidence that methane emissions are being underreported worldwide.

Kuwait’s state oil producer said its monitoring systems never registered a three-week methane leak observed by our friends at @Kayrros. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@Kayrros In part of a global trend, the U.K. just had its hottest year ever. Acting NOW to #CutMethane can slow today’s unprecedented rate of warming, helping to avert our most acute climate risks, including crop loss, extreme weather & rising sea levels. cbsnews.com/news/2022-hott…