Dreyfus: Natural sources drive 35% of methane emissions with no mitigation tech
Dr. Gabrielle Dreyfus · The unexplored frontier of methane removal · Oct 24, 2024 · at 9:16
Atmospheric scientist Dr. Gabrielle Dreyfus explains to Shayle Kann why atmospheric methane removal is necessary despite methane's shorter atmospheric lifespan compared to carbon dioxide.
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“Human sources of methane, there are some that we have mitigation alternatives for, and when we talk about hard-to-abate sectors for carbon dioxide, there are also hard-to-abate sectors for anthropogenic methane sources that we don't have good mitigation options for that will continue to emit into the future, and on top of that, about 35%, about a third of current Emissions to the atmosphere are from natural sources of methane, and these are expected to increase their emissions in a warmer and wetter world, and we have no mitigation technologies currently available today to deal with these generally diffuse and, you know, low concentration sources, like recently a big surge of these emissions in the tropical wetlands, for example.”
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