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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish ·
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Satellite to ‘name and shame’ worst oil and gas methane polluters

www.theguardian.com

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Satellite to ‘name and shame’ worst oil and gas methane polluters

www.theguardian.com

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Leaks are driving 30% of the climate crisis and MethaneSat will provide the first first near-comprehensive global view

I’ll note that while methane is responsible for something like 30% of the observed warming oil and gas leaks are only part of that.

Edit: Washington Post coverage

Edit: New York Times coverage

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    Here are some animations from 2017 with a similar mission object.

    There is also this Map from 2016 by Nasa titled “Mapping Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuel Exploitation”:

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      Here is some real data from Sential 5P an ESA satellite:

      https://maps.s5p-pal.com/ch4/

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      Satellite to ‘name and shame’ worst oil and gas methane polluters

      That’s fascinating! Looks like there are some seriously leaky pipelines in Russia and Algeria. They need to get on that.

      I wonder why there is a large emission source along what looks like the northern Appalachians? I wasn’t expecting that.

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        The coal mines.

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          Ah ok, thanks!

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