Gotta love those distant goals that allow the current administration to say they've done something… and allowing the next to undo it.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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Yup. Just like the goals we've repeatedly blown through over the past 25 years.
But if the current administration starts programs that decrease methane output, that's progress.
This is a big problem with our version of democracy.
You can't really do anything long term as it'll just be reversed. So you have to do short term things aimed at getting re-elected.
No point doing some big unpopular 50 year project as you'll just get voted out and it cancelled.
This is a big problem with our version of democracy.
Or lack thereof when policy is driven by corporate interests.
We're glad to announce the most ambitious commitment by any government ever; to stop accelerating the holocene extinction before 90% of species are extinct!
US announces rule to slash powerful planet-warming gas by nearly 80% from fossil fuels
That part is doing a lot of work here. The U.S. is still going to subsidize the cattle farming industry, which is a gigantic source of methane emissions.
You're not wrong, but a reduction is progress. It looks like farming emits more methane than the fossil fuels industry, but it's close.
It is a form of progress, but too little and way too late. It's putting a tiny finger band-aid on a slashed cartioid artery.
May as well do nothing, I guess.
When this will basically make no difference, may as well do nothing in this regard. If you're going to do something about methane, like I said, this is a band-aid on a gushing wound.
Last I checked, the US still subsidizes fossil fuels and that production has gone up (US), not down.
But hey! 80% less methane and Teslas are now only $35,000! Climate change solved.
Anyone else severely bothered by the fact that the climate summit was held in Dubai of all places?
So they're not addressing the root cause, just reducing a biproduct of drilling in 8 years, if that even happens (see: Paris Agreement). As evident by the oil spills, monitoring is useless to these oil companies who are never held accountable. Yet another bare-minimum action marketed with the claim: “without an iota of hype, this compact is the biggest thing that will reduce temperatures on the planet in decades".
The rule will crack down on methane leaks from industry in several ways. In a major new development, it will end routine flaring of the natural gas that is a byproduct of drilling oil wells and will phase in a requirement for that gas to be captured instead of burned. The rule will also require stringent leak monitoring of oil and gas wells and compressors, and cut down on leaks from equipment like pumps, storage tanks and controllers.
It will also rely on independent, third-party monitoring – using satellites and other remote-sensing technology – to find very large methane leaks.
Recent studies from the EDF suggest oil and gas operations worldwide have a methane intensity of around 2 to 3% – this is roughly how much methane gas is released during drilling, venting or flaring, or in pipeline and compressor leaks. The companies are committing to cutting that methane intensity percentage to 0.2% by 2030.
Others were critical of the announcement as not being ambitious enough. Murray Worthy, a senior oil and gas researcher at Zero Carbon Analytics, noted that it doesn’t go further than commitments from previous years, and that “industry has yet to deliver” on those promises.
“Most importantly it doesn’t require companies to deal with the main cause of emissions from fossil fuels, which is burning them,” Worthy said in a statement.
I take it us Statesians have found an artificial source of greenhouse gasses then?