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The mystery of missing methane
2014-03-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A new landmark study in the journal Science found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) inventory of greenhouse gases is undercounting total U.S. methane emissions by roughly 50 percent. Based on atmospheric sampling, the study estimates that this missing methane amounts to 14 terra grams (Tg) of methane; that's equal to 6.4 billion pounds, or as much as the weight of 1.4 million new Ford F150 pickup trucks. In the years immediately after it's released, methane is a potent greenhouse...
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