Aside from CO2, methane is the most prevalent greenhouse gas (GHG), with 7,195.56 MtCO2e of CH4 emitted every year (2010). The lifespan of methane, a short-lived atmospheric gas, is about 12 years. Because methane is a potent radiative forcer that only stays in the atmosphere briefly (relative to CO2), efforts to… read more
Short-Lived Gases
Introduction to Short-Lived Pollutants
Even with two major treaties coming out of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, international attention to Global Warming has been dropping in recent years. It is nearly impossible to come up with a global consensus on how best to approach the problem. … read more