David Wallace-Wells urging us to take urgent action to curb emissions of methane from leaky oil and gas production – methane being much worse than CO2 but dissipates quickly:
“At the beginning of last year, it seemed unlikely that the planet would set a record for global average temperature, but by December, we had not just broken but shattered the record. Carbon concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing at eye-popping rates. The state of the climate in 2023 gave ominous new significance to the phrase ‘off the charts’ And off-the-charts exceptional heat across the world’s oceans continues to perplex and worry an awful lot of climate scientists.”