Oil and gas companies lying about their methane emissions

Hat tip to Justin Mikulka

We have always relied on the oil and gas industry to self-report methane emissions. Now we have independent ways to of measuring those emissions and it turns out they were lying about the emissions. By a lot. The blue lines are actual measurements. The pink are industry numbers. 

(Source: MethaneSat)

How amazing!  Oil and gas companies lying about their emissions!  I simply can't believe it!

It certainly explains why methane levels in the atmosphere have been rising so rapidly.  And possibly why global temperatures are now rising by 0.33 degrees C per decade instead of 0.17 degrees, since over 10 years, methane is 80 times as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2.

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