I’ll note that while methane is responsible for something like 30% of the observed warming oil and gas leaks are only part of that.
Edit: Washington Post coverage
Edit: New York Times coverage
Here are some animations from 2017 with a similar mission object.
There is also this Map from 2016 by Nasa titled “Mapping Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuel Exploitation”:
Satellite to ‘name and shame’ worst oil and gas methane polluters
That’s fascinating! Looks like there are some seriously leaky pipelines in Russia and Algeria. They need to get on that.
I wonder why there is a large emission source along what looks like the northern Appalachians? I wasn’t expecting that.
Ah ok, thanks!
Here is some real data from Sential 5P an ESA satellite:
I don’t want the government to detect my farts from space.
It doesn’t have that kind of resolution. Hard to detect anything emitting less than a large cattle feedlot.
Making a big assumption there.
Easy solution. Only pump butt around feedlots. Anonymity via large data.
