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ForestOrca
kbin.social

NIfty! Is this data available to the general public? There's some places I'd like to check.

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ForestOrcareply
kbin.social

The resolution isn't great for the free account, and one can definitely see where the methane emissions are coming from. I checked a few of the oil fields in my state. :-( At least it's not as bad as TX. smh

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

There's also something of a tradeoff between spatial and temporal resolution. There are instruments with much higher spatial resolution but don't get anything like daily updates

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

Also leaking oil and gas infrastructure, as well as rice paddies among other sources. Tools like this are useful for doing things like enforcement of the methane emissions tax the US recently imposed on oil and gas facilities

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

It's methane, and in the US a methane tax on the biggest emitting oil and gas operations just went into effect

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Pizza_Ratreply
lemmy.world

Yeah, I could have said CO2e, but that's just not as much fun to chant.

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

It oxidizes after a few years; problem is that we are adding more at a rate faster than it breaks down

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TheBiscuitLoutreply
lemmy.world

How about drone strikes then? Like big undeclared man made sources of methane get a drone up the corn hole.

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

Three types of problems:

  • oil and gas facilities with a leak. You may release more methane by expanding the hole
  • cows. The cattle themselves are innocent. It's the people raising them are the problem
  • insurance: one off attacks don't do much as a result. It takes repeated and sustained harm to shut thigns down, which means you're likely to end up up in prison
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jaxxedreply
lemmy.world

Can you explain the cow comment further please?

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naeapreply
sopuli.xyz

Not op, but: Cows emit methane, but that's just their natural state as they fart. The problem is how many we have in the meat production industry

Someone correct me, but I think that was the gist.
Or did I understand you wrong? :⁠-⁠\

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

Cows use bacteria in their digestion to break down ceulose into something they can digest. Those bacteria produce methane, which the cows burp out.

Killing a few cows accomplishes nothing; you need to get people to stop raising them.

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