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Also, there's numerous pathways that can be engineered metabolizing methane.
And DuPont has a major program with Statoil in Norway to capture and convert the methane from the gas fields there into useful products.
Now very recently, very recently, I'm talking about last six, seven, eight months, water, methane, carbon dioxide have been detected in the spectrum of a planet outside the solar system.
It's equal to the weight of methane.
And what we're looking at is the presence of the gas methane, CH4, in the atmosphere of Mars.
And you can see there are three distinct regions of methane.
Why is methane important?
We now have evidence that methane is in the atmosphere of Mars, a gas that, on Earth, is biogenic in origin, produced by living systems.
Look where the methane is, the methane is in a very rough terrain area.
We will fly where the methane is.
We will look for methane as well as other gasses produced by living systems.
Tundra, in a warming world, is thawing and releasing a lot of carbon dioxide and also methane.
We can find what they're made of, would their atmospheres have water, carbon dioxide, methane.
We can see the calcium from the world's deserts, soot from distant wildfires, methane as an indicator of the strength of a Pacific monsoon, all wafted on winds from warmer latitudes to this remote and very cold place.
And although they've been getting a lot of crap lately due to methane emissions and climate change, I hope that I can redeem their reputation in part by showing you how incredibly important they are in solving one of the world's biggest problems: food security.
In 2151, in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, a farmer shoots the Klingon Klaang with his plasma rifle after the explosion of a methane store in his farm and the Klingon is sent to the Starfleet Hospital.
I mean the whole atmosphere exploding due to methane.
Similarly, as the frozen Siberian earth thaws, it releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that accelerates global warming.
Several gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, warm the planet as their concentrations in the atmosphere increase.
The second-biggest culprit is methane.
Cutting methane is actually cheaper than cutting carbon.
And because methane is a much shorter-lived gas than CO2, we can prevent some of the worst of short-term warming through its mitigation.
Agricultural production accounts for half of anthropogenic methane, but wastewater systems, landfills, and coal mining also create the gas.
Professor Claudia Kemfert of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) argues that spending $14 billion to $30 billion to reduce methane would create benefits – from the reduction in warming – between 1.4 and three times higher.
This would mean using agricultural and other waste, which would otherwise rot and produce nearly equal amounts of CO2 and methane, an even more dangerous greenhouse gas.
As a result of all the carbon dioxide, methane, soot, and other substances that we human beings pump into the atmosphere every year, global average temperatures have been rising over the past half-century.
SRM might be needed in a planetary emergency – say, if continued warming rapidly accelerates ice-sheet melting and sea-level rise, or if it accelerates methane and CO2 emissions from thawing tundra, which would then accelerate the warming itself.
His orders would rescind the Clean Power Plan regulations of the US Environmental Protection Agency; roll back standards to control methane releases from oil and gas production and distribution; and end the regulatory use of a “social cost of carbon,” introduced by the EPA to calibrate the dollar value of climate damage caused by the emission of an additional ton of carbon dioxide.
Thawing Siberian permafrost will release vast quantities of methane.
But extracting shale energy involves environmental risks and uncertainties, among them groundwater contamination, higher methane emissions, and potential seismic effects.
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