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Methane emissions jumped by record amount in 2021, NOAA says<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Carbon dioxide emissions also rose more than 2 parts per million for the 10th consecutive year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

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Pump jacks operate while others stand idle in the Belridge oil field near McKittrick, Calif., on Nov. 3, 2021. (Mario Tama\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Global methane emissions soared by a record amount in 2021, eclipsing the record set the year before, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, demonstrating the huge challenge facing policymakers who have pledged to limit greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Methane, the second biggest contributor to human-caused global warming after carbon dioxide, is emitted in part by oil and natural gas production,\u00a0<\/b>particularly shale gas drilling. But it\u2019s also emitted by livestock farming and landfills, as well as wetlands whose waterlogged soils, rich in microbes, are ideal for naturally producing methane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Since last year,\u00a0about 100 countries<\/a> have signed on to a Global Methane Pledge, which aims to cut emissions 30 percent by the end of the decade. Some major emitters, such as Russia and China, still have not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOur data show that global emissions continue to move in the wrong direction at a rapid pace,\u201d Rick Spinrad, the NOAA administrator, said in a statement. \u201cThe evidence is consistent, alarming, and undeniable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Recently, climate experts and diplomats have put extra emphasis on controlling methane emissions because it is relatively easy to reduce the emissions by stopping methane escaping from oil and gas wells and leaking from pipelines. Major multinational oil and gas companies have emitted methane in the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico. And Russia ranks among the biggest emitters with aging pipelines stretching for roughly 2,500 miles from the remote Yamal Peninsula in Russia to consumers in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Methane emissions jumped by record amount in 2021, NOAA says Carbon dioxide emissions also rose more than 2 parts per million for the 10th consecutive year Pump jacks operate while others stand idle in the Belridge oil field near McKittrick, Calif., on Nov. 3, 2021. (Mario Tama\/Getty Images) Global methane emissions soared by a record […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3193,328,386,5316,7437,8318,574,32138,5228],"class_list":["post-62415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-methane","tag-methane-emissions","tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","tag-noaa","tag-steven-mufson","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62416,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62415\/revisions\/62416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}