Erica Reinhart
Executive Director & Co-Founder, Spark Climate Solutions. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Erika Reinhardt co-founded and leads Spark Climate Solutions, a non-profit accelerating research and philanthropic investment into under-resourced climate fields such as methane mitigation. Prior to working full-time in climate, she held senior engineering leadership roles at organizations including Stripe, OpenAI, Planet Labs, and U.S. Digital Response.
1shows
1appearances
19statements
13resolved
11supported
2contradicted
85%fully supported
Everything Erica Reinhart said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Reinhart: Climate action neglects near-term warming compared to long-term warming
“We don't have a focus on near-term warming. We're not actively managing it as much as we are long-term warming, and both of these are incredibly important to be aware of and managing in parallel.”
Reinhart: Short-lived pollutants are stronger levers for near-term warming than CO₂
“Net zero by 20 50 for CO two is critically important for managing long-term warming, but we cannot forget about the other pieces primarily around short-lived client pollutants that are going to be even stronger levers towards managing that near-term warming, t…”
Reinhart: Non-CO2 greenhouse gases drive 55% of current global warming
“What is often not understood is that warming today, only 45% of warming today is from carbon dioxide. The other 55% of warming today is from a host of other greenhouse gases.”
Reinhart: Cutting methane cools the atmosphere, cutting CO2 only halts warming
“So when you cut CO₂, you stop warming it, stop warming the atmosphere even more than it already is. When you cut methane, you eventually, over about a decadal time span, start actually bringing that warming down. It's a fundamentally different dynamic.”
Reinhart: GWP 100 metric forces an implicit near-term vs long-term trade-off
“Whenever we compare things on a GWP 100 basis between methane and CO₂, what we are fundamentally doing is actually making a trade-off, one that we're not always conscious of, between near-term warming and long-term warming.”
Reinhart: Atmospheric aerosols currently mask about 0.5°C of gross warming
“We need to grapple with is that we have actually 1.8 degrees of warming in the atmosphere today. And you'll probably say, well, no, Erica, we have one, 1.2 or 1.1 or 1.3. And that's correct. That's net warming. And the reason is that we actually have aerosols …”
Reinhart: Livestock is largest methane source lacking technical solutions
“The remaining livestock emissions for which we don't yet have, ah, supply sides or production side solutions for cutting methane, ah, is, it's the largest single category of anthropogenic methane emissions that we don't yet have technical solutions for.”
Reinhart: Roughly 90% of enteric methane emissions come from grazing livestock
“It's something like two to 10% of enteric methane emissions that are most likely kind of in a actively fed scenario, and the other ninety-ish percent are not,”
Reinhart: Methane causes 0.5°C of warming with 12-year lifetime
“Methane, for example, is currently causing half a degree of warming. It's about 30% of current gross, ah, warming. Methane has an atmospheric lifetime of about 12 years.”
Reinhart: Climate models demand 70% to 80% methane cuts by 2050
“And so the climate models are fundamentally depending on us Dramatically cutting methane by, you know, every model's different, but 70, 80% by 20 50, or by 2100.”
Reinhart: Oil and gas offers the most ready methane reductions
“The most ready reductions in methane do come from oil and gas. We have ready solutions there, and that is a place where we can start to bend the curve of methane”
Reinhart: Research shows flaring fails to fully combust methane
“And there's been a lot of recent research that has shown that flaring has not been As effective as it has been believed to be in actually fully combusting the methane. And so we, ah, even when we are flaring, we actually are continuing to emit some methane, ah…”
Reinhart: Existing livestock methane additives require continuous feeding
“The vast majority of the solutions that we have so far today, including asparagopsis, including three NOP Are things that we need to be feeding the cows all of the time.”
Reinhart: Global methane emissions are 60% anthropogenic and 40% natural
“So methane emissions are currently about 60% anthropogenic and 40% natural.”
Reinhart: Livestock accounts for one-third of human-caused methane emissions
“Among the anthropogenic emissions, we have about a third that comes from livestock. There's another quarter that comes from oil and gas, about 10% that comes from coal mining another 10% that comes from rice, and another about 20% that comes from waste and was…”
Reinhart: Hydroxyl radicals oxidize 90% of atmospheric methane
“90% of methane ends up being what's called oxidized by something called the hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere.”
Reinhart: Pipeline leak detection and repair delivers massive immediate impact
“In the oil and gas sector, a large portion is leaks of natural gas pipelines. So that's an area where just getting better at leak detection and avoidance and repair can have a really massive immediate impact.”
Reinhart: Both anthropogenic and natural methane emissions are currently rising
“Unfortunately, both sides, anthropogenic and natural, are both going up right now.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Erica's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 CATALYSTLEDGER | Executive Director & Co-Founder, Spark Climate Solutions | 1 | 19 | 85% 11/13 | full record on Catalyst → |