Koch-Blank: Hydrogen leaks indirectly cause warming by extending methane lifetime and creating water vapor
Thomas Koch-Blank · What hydrogen leakage means for the climate · Feb 9, 2023 · at 6:29
Thomas Koch-Blank explains the chemical mechanisms through which fugitive hydrogen gas drives global warming.
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“Basically what happens is that the hydrogen that leaks has itself a global warming potential, which has been considered, but then also it has an effect of extending the lifetime of methane in the atmosphere basically causing the methane to stick around longer, and that Has obvious effects on the greenhouse sort of the global warming impact of that methane. And then I think that there is also some interaction with the ozone layer that has as a consequence that the hydrogen creates Stratospheric water vapor, which has another indirect effect on global warming.”
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