Is Ducks Unlimited A Big Source -- The Major Source? For Methane Emissions -- February 14, 2025

Locator: 48562CO2.

Tag: methane.

From TheWashington Post, the story was posted November 4, 2024:

In fact, the story was first posted by yale.edu, October 25, 2016: it looks like "Ducks Unlimited" is a big culprit than the oil companies. LOL.

The amount of methane in the atmosphere has more than doubled in the past 250 years. It has been responsible for about a fifth of global warming. But it has a confusing recent history. The steady rise of emissions stopped in the 1990s. Emissions were stable for almost a decade until 2007, but then abruptly resumed their rise.

[The Bakken boom in North Dakota began, coincidentally (?) in 2007; in Montana in 2000.]

What has been going on? Fracking of natural gas in the U.S. and elsewhere has frequently been blamed for the resumed rise in emissions. But new studies are raising serious questions about that.

Researchers are now saying say that, globally at least, the increase in recent years is due to the activities of microbes in wetlands, rice paddies, and the guts of ruminants.

“Despite the large increase in natural gas production, there has not been an upward trend in industrial emissions,” says Stefan Schwietzke, of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado, who is the lead author of one of the new studies.

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Meanwhile: Jiu Jitsu

Over at Fox.

Somehow I never associated "Jiu Jitsu" with President Trump.