Why methane should be treated differently compared to long-lived greenhouse gases
- Written by Dave Frame, Professor of Climate Change, Victoria University of Wellington
Livestock is a significant source of methane, a potent but short-lived greenhouse gas.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SANew research provides a way out of a longstanding quandary in climate policy: how best to account for the warming effects of greenhouse gases that have different atmospheric lifetimes.
Carbon dioxide is a long-lived greenhouse...