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A newer, more accurate method for calculating methane emissions from offshore oil and gas production suggests that the United Kingdom severely underestimates its greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers conclude that as much as five times more methane is being leaked from oil and gas production than reported.
Researchers have developed a new sensor that they suggest could allow practical and low cost detection of low concentrations of methanegas. Measuring methane emissions is important because the gas contributes to globalwarming and air pollution. Relevant sectors include agriculture and the waste industry.
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A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.
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. “The science shows that over half of fossil fuels in existing fields and mines must stay underground to limit globalwarming to 1.5°C, C, and our Big Oil Reality Check analysis finds that none of the major oil and gas companies we analyze plan to do anything even close to what is needed to hold globalwarming to 1.5°C,”
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And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit globalwarming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions.
As early as 1959, for example, physicist Edward Teller spoke about globalwarming that could melt the ice caps and submerge coastal cities at an oil industry symposium organized by API. This latest phase has unfolded over the last decade and continues today. BP and Phillips 66 declined to comment.
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