#greenhouse-gas — Public Fediverse posts
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This is on the important side: greenhouse gases make Earth's surface warmer, but the stratosphere colder. We understand the general principle of why, but the details still need work - like how different gases have different effects.
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@BBCWildlife @bbc-wildlife-magazine-BBCWildlife #Kelpforests are impressive #ecosystems, characterized by a vast #diversity of #species. These underwater landscapes serve as vital carbon sinks for the #greenhousegas #CO2. Consequently, such extraordinary habitats are of scientific interest for contributing to counteract global warming.
Text by Stefan F. Wirth
References:
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelp_forest#/media/File%3AKelp_forest.jpg
Science writing G. Green (2026): https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/patagonia-megatransect?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Scientists Discover Hidden Methane Source Beneath Every Major City
Methane is one of the most powerful drivers of global warming, yet scientists may have overlooked a major…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #CA #Canada #climatechange #EnvironmentalScience #GreenhouseGas #methane #Pollution
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Can a #carbon price lower power bills? #Virginia is betting yes.
With power demand from #datacenters skyrocketing, the state is rejoining a regional climate initiative.
VA governor signed bill last month that would return Virginia to the Regional #GreenhouseGas Initiative, or #RGGI, carbon pricing program that covers electrical utilities in states across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. Spanberger’s Republican predecessor, Glenn Youngkin, pulled out of the program in 2022.
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Wars destroy lives and the climate. Why aren't we counting military emissions?
This isn't a minor oversight. Militaries are significant contributors to #GreenhouseGas #emissions. #Russia's invasion of Ukraine has generated an estimated 311 million tons of what's known as #CO2 equivalent, comparable to the combined annual emissions of Belgium, New Zealand, Austria and Portugal. CO2 equivalent is the metric used to compare the warming impact of various greenhouse gases to #CarbonDioxide.
Recently published research calculated that the first 15 months of #Israel's war in Gaza generated more than 33 million tons of CO₂ equivalent, comparable to the combined 2023 annual emissions of Costa Rica and Slovenia.
In February 2026, Israel and the #UnitedStates launched a war against #Iran, joining a long list of other conflicts where emissions go uncounted in global inventories.
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-wars-destroy-climate-military-emissions.html
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The Carbon Budget Petition. We need to get half our cars off gas, half our buildings off gas and cut all industrial emissions in half, including the oil sands. We have all the technology, and some of it is even cheaper than gas. All we are missing is political leadership. Help to pressure the Canadian government by signing the Parliamentary Petition. #CarbonBudget #greenhousegas #cleanenergy
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Next #ElNiño could be tipping point for a hotter #climate
#Pacific heat pulse is temporary, but scientists warn that its climate impacts are not.
In a world already superheated by #greenhousegas, a strong El Niño during next 12 to 18 months could permanently push the planet’s average annual temperature past the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold enshrined in scientific documents and political agreements as a turning point for potentially irreversible climate impacts.
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Analysis: Which #countries are historically responsible for #ClimateChange? - Carbon Brief
Another way of looking at how much countries have historically cumulatively contributed to #GreenhouseGas #emissions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zP0L69ielU
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-are-historically-responsible-for-climate-change/#Environment #GlobalWarming #US #China #Russia #Brazil #Indonesia #Germany #India #UK #Japan #Canada
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New Gas-Powered #DataCenters Could Emit More #GreenhouseGases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for #datacenter projects using #naturalgas and linked to #OpenAI, #Meta, #Microsoft, and #xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of #greenhousegas per year.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-gas-powered-data-centers-could-emit-more-greenhouse-gases-than-entire-nations/
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"New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by WIRED show that these natural gas projects—which are being built to power data centers to serve some of the US’s most powerful AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI—have the potential to emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
As tech companies race to secure massive power deals to build out hundreds of data centers across the country, these projects represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential climate cost of the AI boom.
The infrastructure on this list of large natural gas projects reviewed by WIRED is being developed to largely bypass the grid and provide power solely for data centers, a trend known as behind-the-meter power. As data center developers face long waits for connections to traditional utilities, and amid mounting public resistance to the possibility of higher energy bills, making their own power is becoming an increasingly popular option.
These projects have either been announced or are under construction, with companies already submitting air permit application materials with state agencies."
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
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#CGTN:
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China launches new satellite for high-precision greenhouse gas monitoring
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".. Long March-4C .. blasted off at 12:10 p.m. (Beijing Time) carrying the satellite into a preset orbit. .. satellite is equipped with five advanced instruments, .."17.4.2026
#China #CZ4C #DAQI2 #DQ2 #EO #Erdbeobachtung #JSLC #GreenhouseGas #LM4C #Lidar #Raumfahrt #SAST #Satelliten #SpaceFlight #Treibhausgas #Umweltsatellit
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Forbidden Words Project image: wetlands © holly troy 2026 "The world's oceans may be playing a larger role in climate change than scientists once realized, quietly boosting global warming through processes that are only now coming into focus." From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026 -
The most polluting #LNG project in the #US is being built in #Louisiana
Louisiana LNG is expected to generate more #greenhousegases than any other #naturalgas terminal in the country.
Louisiana faces several #climate threats exacerbated by #greenhousegas #emissions, including #sealevelrise and more #hurricanes. “As Louisiana becomes more vulnerable, we’re just adding to that vulnerability by producing more greenhouse gases,” Rolfes said. “That’s insanity.”
https://grist.org/energy/louisiana-lng-project-pollution-woodside-gas/
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#idw Human #GreenhouseGas emissions drive compound hot-dry extremes and enforce #climate risks for low-income countries
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are amplifying #ClimateChange and its impacts – this is agreed on by the scientific community. One consequence is that extreme events like heat and droughts are becoming more frequent and more intense.
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The rejection of bonfires in actual #naturist spaces reflects this philosophy. While fire has a long history in human culture, its modern use for leisure conflicts with #environmental responsibility. Burning wood releases stored carbon rapidly into the atmosphere, contributing to #GreenhouseGas accumulation. #Naturists often choose alternatives that do not harm the air or surrounding ecosystems. (6/17)
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“#EmperorPenguins are a sentinel species that tell us about our changing world & how well we are controlling #GreenhouseGas #emissions,” Philip Trathan, a member of the IUCN specialist group that determined the species’ #conservation status, said in a statement Thursday.
#climate #environment #GlobalWarming #EndangeredSpecies #wildlife #MarineLife #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science
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Zeldin Praises Climate Skeptics, Heralds "Vindication"
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin spoke at the Heartland Institute, celebrating the end of greenhouse gas rules. This affects regulations for cars and power plants.
#EPA, #ClimateChange, #LeeZeldin, #Environment, #GreenhouseGas
https://newsletter.tf/epa-zeldin-praises-climate-skeptics-ends-rules/
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin spoke to the Heartland Institute, a group that questions climate science. This happened just after his agency ended important rules about greenhouse gases.
#EPA, #ClimateChange, #LeeZeldin, #Environment, #GreenhouseGas
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Drivers and spatiotemporal patterns of #GreenhouseGas emissions from #Rice paddies: a global meta-analysis and future projections#Methane | #NitrousOxide | #NetGreenhouseGasBalance | #ClimateChange | #AgriculturalManagementPractices
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#Trump #administration officials voted unanimously on to exempt #OilAndGas drilling in the #GulfOfMexico from measures to protect endangered #whales and other imperiled species. These official called #GodSquad who decide on guture of a species.
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The Destruction of Nature is a Cost of War
by Ci Davis
We have become accustomed to seeing the human impacts of war, from starvation in Sudan to the almost 100,000 killed in Gaza, but most people will be less familiar with the environmental impacts. On February 28th, another Middle East war broke out when the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran. In the first few hours, the Supreme Leader was killed, followed by the bombing of a school, killing 150 Iranian schoolgirls, and soon after, columns of smoke began to rise from targeted hits on petrochemical infrastructures.
Over the past three weeks, oil refineries, gas fields, tankers, nuclear facilities, desalination plants, oil storage tanks, air bases, and industrial areas have all been attacked. The water, marine and toxic-air pollution are a consequence of the smoke from the multiple infernos, from the widely dispersed toxic fragments, and from the many chemicals and heavy metals that escape into the soil and water, caused by thousands of bomb and missile strikes
The human and environmental costs of another war prompted two protests in Sheffield. On 21st March, 150 people demonstrated outside the Town Hall to call for an end to the war on Iran and also made connections with other current conflicts, including Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan, Ukraine and Cuba.
Our media tends to represent the environmental impacts of war as collateral damage, an unfortunate side effect, but really, they are a deliberate and targeted means of disrupting the lives of people by making their connection to land fragile or even untenable. No clearer example exists than the use of Agent Orange to defoliate the forests of Vietnam that left millions of Vietnamese and hundreds of thousands of US veterans with multigenerational health disorders and birth defects. Environmental harm is one of the ways that war impacts lives that can last many decades.
The environmental impacts of war cannot be separated from the environmental costs of the military machine itself, which is responsible for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, which rose by a staggering 9.4% in 2024. The US military is the largest institutional emitter of GHGs that are responsible for climate change, burning 270000 barrels of oil daily. Countries are not required to produce figures for the wartime emissions, but recently it is estimated that the war in Ukraine has produced 237 million tonnes of CO2, the Gaza conflict 32 million tonnes and in the first 5 days of the Iran war 5 million tonnes. At a time when all countries should be doing everything to reduce climate and environmental damage, the resort to war is escalating the harm.
Apocalyptic images, showing clouds of black toxic smoke blocking out the sun over Tehran, following the bombings of local oil depots on 7th March, are haunting. The oily residues, soot and sulphur-laden smoke, combined with a rare rainstorm, produced acid rain, causing immediate respiratory impacts with a lasting health legacy. For people who had already experienced chemical weapons attacks during the Iran-Iraq war, this environmental warfare was experienced as chemical warfare again.
Impact of War on the Environment Author: Sayedqudrathashimy1991 Source: Wikimedia CommonsThe Middle East is experiencing the climate crisis through water insecurity. The conflict in Syria, which displaced 1.5 million people between 2007 and 2010, was in part precipitated by drought. There are clear parallels to Iran today. After six years of drought, the water supply to Tehran was at just 11% capacity, and the shortage of water to drink or to supply agriculture contributed to protests in January 2026. War is exploiting this suffering, with all parties having targeted water and sewerage systems that, if continued, threaten to displace people throughout the region, as well as causing severe health impacts.
Most of us will be familiar with the skeletons of buildings and mountains of debris from TV images of Gaza. The 61 million tonnes of rubble are laden with asbestos, unexploded weapons, dead bodies, and untreated sewerage that has rendered the land unfit for agriculture. The clearance will take decades and burn through hundreds of thousands more tonnes of fossil fuel, and we are seeing the same thing being repeated across Iran and the Gulf.
Years after wars end, the land, air and sea will remain contaminated. Thankfully, the deliberate targeting of the environment is becoming recognised in International Law as a war crime or ecocide and can be punished under the ICC’s Rome Statute. If it is demonstrated that the military intentionally launched an attack, knowing that it will cause long-term severe damage to the natural environment, that is excessive to the military advantage anticipated, then prosecutions may follow.
As the war drags on, it risks total destruction of the oil-fields, spillage of nuclear material, and depleted Uranium contamination. These huge environmental threats will have global impacts, experienced as economic shocks and agricultural losses, threatening food security. War demonstrates our intimate connection with the land and the importance of environmental protection.
Most people oppose the war, the use of UK bases in support of it, and sending the military to the Middle East. We should make our voices heard, calling upon world leaders to respond to our opposition and pull back from the brink, for the sake of people and the planet.
For more information on what you can do, contact: [email protected]
References
Gayle, D. (2025, May 31). What is ecocide and could it become a crime under international law? The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/what-is-ecocide-and-could-it-become-a-under-international-law
Gayle, D. (2026, March 20). From black rain to marine pollution, the war in Iran is an environmental disaster. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/down-to-earth-iran-us-israeli-war-environmental-destruction
Holmes, O., Gayle, D., & Ahmedzade, T. (2026, March 23). Tehran’s toxic cloud: Satellite images show oily fires burned for days. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/23/tehran-toxic-cloud-satellite-image-oil-fires
Meadway, J. (2026, January 15). How ‘day zero’ water shortages in Iran are fuelling protests. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/how-day-zero-water-shortages-in-iran-are-fuelling-protests
Moneer, Z. (2026, March 22). Water Infrastructure Has Become a Target in Modern Warfare. Earth.Org. https://earth.org/from-lifeline-to-strategic-weapon-how-water-infrastructure-becomes-a-target-in-armed-conflicts/
Neimark, B., & Mackintosh, K. (2025, November 4). How wars ravage the environment – and what international law is doing about it. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.4yt3f6ys7
New data reveals the Military Emissions Gap is growing wider. (2025, November 6). CEOBS. https://ceobs.org/new-data-reveals-the-military-emissions-gap-is-growing-wider/
Palmer, M. G. (2005). The legacy of agent orange: Empirical evidence from central Vietnam. Social Science & Medicine, 60(5), 1061–1070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.04.037
Photos: Dire water shortages pile misery on Gaza’s starving population. (n.d.). Al Jazeera. Retrieved 24 March 2026, from https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/8/4/unprecedented-water-crisis-in-gaza-amid-israeli-induced-starvation
The US-Israel war on Iran and how war and conflict are destroying the environment. (2026, March 19). Greenpeace International. https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/82201/iran-lebanon-war-environment-climate-impacts/
Three days of Operation Epic Fury: Rapid overview of environmental harm in Iran and the region. (2026, March 3). CEOBS. https://ceobs.org/three-days-of-operation-epic-fury-rapid-overview-of-environmental-harm-in-iran-and-the-region/
#AcidRain #AgentOrange #ChemicalWeapons #Cuba #DepletedUranium #environment #Gaza #GreenhouseGas #Iran #Iraq #Lebanon #nuclear #Oil #sewage #SheffieldAntiWarCoalition #Sudan #Ukraine #Vietnam #War #Water -
#Winter #SeaIce in the #Arctic Ties a Record Low
#Ice is vanishing worldwide as humans burn #fossilfuels for energy and emit #greenhousegas. But it’s disappearing particularly quickly in Arctic, which is warming four times as fast as rest of the planet.
Only 5% of the oldest, thickest sea ice recorded in the 1980s has survived to the present day. In the same amount of time, summertime sea ice cover has been halved, shrinking by some 12% per decade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/climate/arctic-sea-ice-ties-record-low.html
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Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes
The world is in a state of climate emergency, the head of the United Nations declared Sunday, following…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #carbondioxide #Climatechange #greenhousegas #greenhousegasemissions #greenhousegases #u.n. #UnitedNations #warming #World #WorldMeteorologicalOrganization
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US and Israel’s war on Iran is a disaster for the environment, analysis shows | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate"Exclusive: War has led to 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in two weeks and is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined"
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Satellite Images Reveal #MegaLeaks of Potent Greenhouse Gas
UCLA's #StopMethaneProject ranked the 25 oil and gas sites with the largest methane emissions rates worldwide.
By Ellyn Lapointe
Published March 18, 2026"Researchers with the Stop Methane Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, used data from #CarbonMapper—a non-profit that uses remote sensing technology to pinpoint and quantify methane emissions—to rank these mega-leaks. They’re spread across a small handful of countries, including the #US, with the majority in #Turkmenistan. A whopping 15 of the 25 largest leaks are concentrated in this #authoritarian state."
Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/satellite-images-reveal-mega-leaks-of-potent-greenhouse-gas-2000734990Full list:
https://stopmethane.substack.com/p/spotlight-on-the-top-25-methane-plumes#MethaneLeaks #MethaneEmissions #WorldPol #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #GreenhouseGas #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Iran #Venezuela #Texas #Pakistan
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Feds Are Downplaying #MethaneLeaks in America’s Biggest #OilField, Satellite Data Suggests
A report found #MethaneEmissions in the #PermianBasin to be nearly four times higher than #EPA estimates. A senator wants an explanation.
By Ellyn Lapointe
Published March 20, 2026"#FossilFuel extraction is a known source of #methane leaks, releasing large amounts of this potent #GreenhouseGas into the atmosphere. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency appears to be drastically underreporting emissions from the nation’s largest oil-producing region.
"Nearly half of U.S. oil comes from the Permian Basin in West #Texas and southeastern #NewMexico. The region generates more than $100 billion annually for the U.S. economy, and apparently, a whole lot of methane, too. A recent report from #MethaneSAT—a methane-sensing satellite that observed Earth from March 2024 to June 2025—found emissions from the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than the EPA’s official estimates."
Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/feds-are-downplaying-methane-leaks-in-americas-biggest-oil-field-satellite-data-suggests-2000736269#BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #USPol #TrumpSucks
#TrumpsEPA #EPAFail #ClimateChange
#GlobalWarming