To Solve the Climate Crisis, Focus on Methane

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Most climate action today focuses on zeroing out carbon emissions, but Stanford climate scientist Rob Jackson wants us to take a hard look at methane. It’s a byproduct of animal agriculture and fossil fuel extraction, and pound for pound it’s a greenhouse gas 80 to 90 times more potent than carbon dioxide. That means the upside of reducing methane emissions is significant: Jackson says that no other greenhouse gas provides such an immediate opportunity to slow climate change. We learn more and hear why Jackson’s hopeful about curbing methane emissions in our lifetimes. His new book is “Into the Clear Blue Sky.” Guests: Rob Jackson, professor of earth system science; senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy; author, "Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.6	Most climate action today focuses on zeroing out
1:29.6	carbon dioxide emissions. But Stanford climate scientist Rob Jackson says there's another greenhouse
1:35.5	gas we should be focusing on methane. It's much more potent than CO2 at warming the earth,
1:40.6	and it dissipates faster, meaning that reducing and capturing methane emissions
1:45.3	could dramatically improve global warming within our lifetimes.
1:49.6	We'll talk to Jackson about why he feels hopeful about our ability to address climate change,
1:54.5	and his new book called Into the Clear Blue Sky, The Path to Restoring to restoring our atmosphere. Join us.
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