Head Fake: Lake Methane Is Worse Than CO2
By News Staff | March 26th 2018 11:30 AM | Print | E-mail
A new paper is proposing that methane due to lakes is scarier than carbon dioxide, but it tells only one sider of the story: methane has much greater warming impact, they rightly note, but leave out that it is so short-lived it is having zero impact on climate change.
Marine environmental activists are leading the charge against methane, for reasons that are not yet clear: a marine biologist became famous for claiming natural gas was worse for the environment than CO2, and though his findings have long since been debunked, it continues to be a story for environmental fundraisers. Now a paper published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters lends its voice, stating that that lake size and nutrients drive how greenhouse gases are emitted globally from lakes into the atmosphere.
http://www.science20.com/news_staff/head_fake_lake_methane_is_worse_than_co2-231383
