The world literally decided that it was better off with a big short-term bump in emissions than a smaller long-term one. That’s the primary motivator behind the switch from coal to natural gas, despite how much worse methane is as a GHG in the short-term (<100 year time frame).
The world literally decided that it was better off with a big short-term bump in emissions than a smaller long-term one. That’s the primary motivator behind the switch from coal to natural gas, despite how much worse methane is as a GHG in the short-term (<100 year time frame).