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Methane plume over western US illustrates climate cost of gas leaks

2015-01-04 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The methane that leaks from 40,000 gas wells near the desert trading post of Cuba, New Mexico, may be colourless and odourless, but its not invisible. It can be seen from space. Satellites that sweep over the north of the energy-rich state can spot the gas as it escapes from drilling rigs, compressors and a pipeline snaking across the badlands. In the air it forms a giant plume: a permanent methane cloud, so vast that scientists questioned their own data when they first studied it three years...

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