Climate impact from China's coal push can be seen from space
Satellite detected a plume of methane near a remote coal mine in Inner Mongolia on March 1. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Satellite detected a plume of methane near a remote coal mine in Inner Mongolia on March 1. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
China’s increased reliance on coal to combat an energy shortage was never going to bode well for its ambitions to cut planet-warming emissions.
A plume of methane, which traps over 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide in its first two decades in the atmosphere, was detected near a remote coal mine in Inner Mongolia on March 1.
China's increased reliance on coal to combat an energy shortage was never going to bode well for its ambitions to cut planet-warming emissions. Now, thanks to new analysis of satellite data, the effects of that climate choice could already be evident from space.