Interesting to also compare and contrast the rates of methane release supposedly coming from the melting of the Siberian permafrost. According to wikipedia(!) this is 17 million tonnes a year, or 0.3 million tonnes a week?
That's 300,000 tonnes per week, which is much greater than the 3850 tonnes released from the pipelines. Although I would imagine that most methane release from permafrost occurs during the short summer, so it's probably even higher during that brief time window. It's estimated that methane contributes 30-50% to total global warming, so we should be seeing some significant warming now and in the next decade, with all these cows farting, all these leaks occurring and permafrost melting. Strange thing is, global temperature has been largely flat since 2016 after the huge El Nino of that year.
I read somewhere that as the valves are turned off all that's escaping is the gas in the pipes, and this in total is about the same as Germany typically uses in 2 days. So a lot of gas to waste but over a year and globally it's not a significant release.
The difference is, Germany would burn the gas to produce energy and small amounts of combustion products: CO2, water, carbon monoxide etc. This is a release of CH4 directly into the atmosphere which the 'experts' tell us can produce dangerous warming in the short term.
Interesting to also compare and contrast the rates of methane release supposedly coming from the melting of the Siberian permafrost. According to wikipedia(!) this is 17 million tonnes a year, or 0.3 million tonnes a week?
That's 300,000 tonnes per week, which is much greater than the 3850 tonnes released from the pipelines. Although I would imagine that most methane release from permafrost occurs during the short summer, so it's probably even higher during that brief time window. It's estimated that methane contributes 30-50% to total global warming, so we should be seeing some significant warming now and in the next decade, with all these cows farting, all these leaks occurring and permafrost melting. Strange thing is, global temperature has been largely flat since 2016 after the huge El Nino of that year.
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I read somewhere that as the valves are turned off all that's escaping is the gas in the pipes, and this in total is about the same as Germany typically uses in 2 days. So a lot of gas to waste but over a year and globally it's not a significant release.
The difference is, Germany would burn the gas to produce energy and small amounts of combustion products: CO2, water, carbon monoxide etc. This is a release of CH4 directly into the atmosphere which the 'experts' tell us can produce dangerous warming in the short term.