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New tool lets anyone audit a country's methane claims (phys.org)
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For years, countries have told the United Nations how much methane they emit using a kind of bottom-up bookkeeping: Count the cows and oil barrels, estimate the volume of trash, and multiply by standard emission factors. Those ledgers can miss the mark, suggest measurements from aircraft and satellites. But the tools to translate that data into national emissions estimates have largely remained the domain of specialists. A team at Harvard is changing that. In a recent Nature Communications paper, the researchers describe Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI), an open-access system designed to let governments, researchers and civil society independently evaluate national methane claims against what satellites detect in the atmosphere, year after year.

Map generated with the tool described is available here: https://worldwidemethaneemissions.com/

A Few Thoughts and Observations about the Recent Huge Computer Parts Price Increases by thegreenman in c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net
[-] thegreenman@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago

Yeah, no, I'm not going through two different 'prove you're not a robot' screens for one article about RAM chips, thanks.

This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why | Sarah Stein Lubrano by thegreenman in c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
[-] thegreenman@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

You made me reade this article, which I dismissed as a clickbait before, but I cannot find it. Where is that implication?

'A total failure' — Hungarian opposition leader says Ukraine EU accession national poll had lowest ever turnout by thegreenman in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[-] thegreenman@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

It probably also has to do with the fact that Hungary is entirely in the russian pocket, just saying.

Want to plant trees to offset fossil fuels? You’d need all of North and Central America, study finds by thegreenman in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[-] thegreenman@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

Plant a tree, let it be, don't mow around it, leave the leaves, and when it dies or breaks, also leave it there, it's all alive!

Want to plant trees to offset fossil fuels? You’d need all of North and Central America, study finds by thegreenman in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[-] thegreenman@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

No, I want to plant trees because it helps to have a resilient ecosystem that's more safe in case of a cascade collapse. I want to plant trees because they provide shade in the summer. Because they improve the soil. Because they help prevent floods. Because they give birds food and shelter. Because they are fucking PRETTY.

Can we start thinking about the whole thing instead of acting as if i single problems that are not interconnected?

Plant some fucking trees, even if they are not just carbon sequestration batteries.

Giving your house plants genetically enhanced super powers by thegreenman in c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
[-] thegreenman@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

That's because this video is an undisclosed ad probably. Also, sorry, I'm not really willing to take advice from someone who lives in Northern America with it's completely fucked ecosystem, says to be 'a researcher' and still makes dumb quips about how the genetic research restrictions in Europe are 'silly' and 'too much'

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