This climate gas is scarier than CO2

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There are no silver bullets in the fight against climate change - but there are some blindingly obvious solutions that wouldn't hurt anybody. So... why aren't fossil fuel companies plugging their methane leaks?
Reporter: Ajit Niranjan
Camera: Chris Caurla
Video Editor: Nils Reinecke
Supervising editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world - and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
#PlanetA #Methane #ClimateChange
Read more:
IEA Global Methane Tracker 2022: www.iea.org/reports/global-me...
Global Assessment of Oil and Gas Methane Ultra-Emitters: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
UNEP Global Methane Assessment: www.unep.org/resources/report...
Clean Air Task Force: Methane Pollution in Europe's oil and gas network: cdn.catf.us/wp-content/upload...
Control Methane to Slow Global Warming: www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Why Methane Matters
03:20 Hunting Methane
09:56 Ultra-Emitters
11:27 Solutions

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@jaxon.roller 2 жыл бұрын

The sheer scale of what we leak is wild. And it's not just methane. Grocery stores leak 25% of their refrigerant annually

@DWPlanetA 2 жыл бұрын

We've actually done a report on refrigerants before. Check out: "Refrigerants: The climate killer hiding in your kitchen" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jLSHZrxixNHRZ40.html - tell us what you think in the comments section.

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын

This is what helped push me toward supporting a carbon tax. It’s simply cheaper right now to keep polluting and all companies really care about is their profits. So let’s make it more profitable to be environmentally responsible!

@bastiannenke9613 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of grocery stores here switch or already switched to CO2 as refrigerant because it only has the effect of CO2 if it leaks, other refrigerants are a lot worse.

@ashleyyyy8833 2 жыл бұрын

Whenever I watch videos like this my emotional thought pattern looks like this: Anxiety at discovering the scale of yet another major pollutant, followed by hope because solutions do exist, but that quickly turns to anger and despair because solutions have existed for a long time, but our politicians seem to lack the will to do anything about it. COP 'promises' are meaningless until they result in policy changes.

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I’m calling and emailing my politicians multiple times a month these days in an effort to push them towards more action. Might sound kind of crazy, but I figure it’s warranted when we consider what is on the line here.

@Zosu22 2 жыл бұрын

@@SaveMoneySavethePlanet that’s not crazy. Calling your representatives and putting pressure on them does have an impact, and probably the largest impact an individual can make.

@donniemoder1466 2 жыл бұрын

Should you blame yourself, your family, your school, your employer?

@noyoudontgettoknow8586 2 жыл бұрын

this entire video is a lie: 1) methane having an estimated mean half-life of 9.1 years in the atmosphere its not going to build up to anything worth worrying about, as it currently sits at 1892.2 ppb or 0.00018922% which is nothing and 2) man made climate change isn't real in the first place. how many times are you going to listen to them say the sky is falling. do you have any idea how long people have been trying to blame people for the weather. for god sake in the dark ages they burned witches because of bad weather.

@noyoudontgettoknow8586 Жыл бұрын

@@someguy2135 there is no deforestation going on, 2.24 million square KM of more forest growth vs. losses in the last 35 years thats the size of Texas and Alaska combine and its caused because of higher co2 and concerted efforts to plant trees in deserts

@emilyarchibald1900 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I really hope more is done about this soon, not just proposals. A 30% cut in methane emissions by the end of the decade doesn't sound like nearly enough.

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын

More is definitely better in this case, but I’m all for hitting 30% and then discussing the next goal. Cause right now we’re not trying hard to hit the first goal.

@sureshmysore2200 2 жыл бұрын

@0my 10 ай бұрын

Why do they go searching for only the tiny amount that leaks from industry, and ignore the giga tons that except naturally

@DWPlanetA 2 жыл бұрын

Did you already know how bad methane is?

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын

I did, but I still learned more in depth stuff cause of this video so I liked it!

@izzurzuhri 2 жыл бұрын

as bad as narrator voice

@Estel4565 2 жыл бұрын

Yeap. But I do not belong to the general public. So no surprises there. Still the video was interesting to watch. Please keep producing them :) I have learned a lot of things about sectors I have no specilisation in.

@christinearmington Жыл бұрын

Yes. For ten years I’ve worried about how this gas will threaten our future.

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын

The satellite imaging also has another interesting use. It allows them to find leaks from sites which don’t currently do business, but were shut down improperly.

@GoGreenPost 2 жыл бұрын

There are so many different pollutants that leak into the environment each day from plastic and methane to refrigerants and nutrients. It makes me wonder how much of an impact we are having that is unaccounted for.

@saurabhthakar 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a quote by bill morison that The problems of world are increasing complex but solutions remains embarassing ly simple.

@person2194 2 жыл бұрын

A good way for us to reduce methane is by composting and eating less animal products

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, definitely the simplest things that us citizens can start within the next 24 hours. I’m still excited for tech like this though since we need to force companies to reduce their methane emissions as well or else we’ll never hit our goals.

@DWPlanetA 2 жыл бұрын

Check out this report: "Is vegan meat the 'better' meat?" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLqmgc2A16mdnIE.html - let us know what you think of the video in the comments section.

@dougkippen4971 2 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine an international agreement to cut methane. At this point, we can't even agree on how to pronounce "methane". 😁

@aussiecath Жыл бұрын

If there was the big companies leaking it would probably be left alone anyway. Money talks.

@veggieboyultimate 2 жыл бұрын

Methane deserves more attention when it comes to global warming as carbon dioxide does.

@andrewtrip8617 4 ай бұрын

Why ?water vapour takes care of it for us .

@jakemontone807 2 жыл бұрын

The thing is company doesn't care if there is no penalty regardless how cheap it is to fix it.

@dumi08 2 жыл бұрын

Great content

@michaelmazzone4421 4 ай бұрын

Great video! We are a commercial drone service that operates gas detection payloads on our drones that can detect up to 1PPM of methane! We are not getting any traction by the methane suppliers to allow us to detect gas leaks and in turn fix them . We believe that since it can go unnoticed except for expensive detectors like yours and ours, they don't bother even though it could save them millions if captured. We are trying to get them to make the shift, but they are resistant! Need help to convince them!!

@Earth098 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video!!

@tobysatriayudha4564 Жыл бұрын

Sooo, what about those "green" scenarios of producing methane from hydrogen and CO2 from air, for car fuel?

@amazingworldtech1 2 жыл бұрын

Its pretty easy to lower methane concentration in atm by react it with steam to give u co and hydrogen gas

@Alorio-Gori 2 жыл бұрын

Another amazing video 👏

@tejasam1 2 жыл бұрын

Unconditional right to stop our own life whenever we want, for all adults

@joeycad Жыл бұрын

By lowering the pressure on underground methane stores( as we extract and burn it),. We have somewhat reduced natural emissions.

@KazMaw1 2 жыл бұрын

Scary!

@hanzee9008 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍 thanks DW

@BKAM2316 2 жыл бұрын

The microphone setup is too irritating cause I can hear the reporter's tongue moving. Otherwise great content

@suggesttwo Жыл бұрын

It's because the employees don't care. I remember a gas leak at work. 10 years later still leaking.

@locacharliewong 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for talking about it methane leaking once again.

@worldchangingvideos6253 2 жыл бұрын

Report even suspicions of leaks to your local authorities 👏

@vthilton 2 жыл бұрын

Save Our Planet

@Tr1Hard777 Жыл бұрын

This is why i don't worry too much about leaving the faucet on when i brush my teeth or turning lights off or driving a big vehicle. When big companies leak more pollution in a day than i will ever use in a lifetime why should i make my life harder and more tedious when they don't have to.

@rdyjur Жыл бұрын

Your leak is for one person's convenience. A methane leak at a large gas plant is one that might serve 10's of thousands of consumers. methane leaked/person is not really any more significant than you leaving the lights on needlessly, if you allocate those emissions to consumers, and I think it's fair to at least give consumer some of the blame. Even if they didn't know about methane leaks, they can no longer plead ignorance on global warming.

@parthoomphy7214 2 жыл бұрын

Nice research. Great to see a channel focused on our environment which most people aren't thinking about! Subscribed for good!! 👍👌

@grahamdonges8921 2 жыл бұрын

Do we not see methane escaping every time we fill gas cylinders??????

@gabrieleferro2037 2 жыл бұрын

this happens in US too

@mitchellwalker9839 2 жыл бұрын

A different point to make would be how to deal with the infrastructure from gas drills after all the gas has been harvested. Usually companies, will close the pipeline but will never go back to do any form of check back later down the line for damage. The metal can corrode and vent out gas later down the line. And companies are under no legal obligation to fix these and are unlikely to do so, themselves. Solution to fix this would be to fine companies at a fixed rate of Methane lost or how long the leak has occurred from.

@aussiecath Жыл бұрын

Measurements from a space station found some leaking LPG site in the Middle East was leaking 40, 000kg per hour.

@haidiralias5098 Жыл бұрын

For 13:16 , that camera of yours, it's already among the highest standard! Are they stalling the action? For the companies that have "no comments" , you have to say "We will be showing your leaking to KZfaq, Dailymotion or Greta! ", then they will comment. 😩

@nareshbehera8832 2 жыл бұрын

Audio is so low .

@hrushikeshavachat900 7 ай бұрын

Capturing thr methan and burning it into C02 can give an additional source of heat and power while also reducing thr impact of clilate change.

@NirvanaFan5000 2 жыл бұрын

What if we incentivized rice farmers to inculcate their rice paddies with methanotrophs, which can digest the methane forming in the paddies?

@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq 2 жыл бұрын

The relevant consequence of that is obvious.

@hanshelsen8596 2 жыл бұрын

Much faster, more precise and cheaper done with a gas analyzer like aeris sensor ch4 c2h6

@williamgwyntreharne9966 Жыл бұрын

How do we remove methane from the atmosphere?

@DWPlanetA Жыл бұрын

Great question! 🌏 Earth's natural processes destroy roughly 10% of the methane in the atmosphere every year, but we do not have a practical system in place to deal with the other 90% - other than waiting it out. 🤓 Here are a couple of academic articles if you want to read more about the limitations of atmospheric methane removal: 📗 Practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal: www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0496-7 📘 Interpreting contemporary trends in atmospheric methane: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1814297116

@mentality-monster 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, very informative. Thank you sir.

@andrewtrip8617 4 ай бұрын

This is absurd .the nasa data is clear Europe is the only area with continually decreasing methane emissions.over the past 20 years The big emitters are the Amazon basin and Asia but no one is suggesting doing anything to either of those two .

@hmartim 2 жыл бұрын

Finally we started natural gas-shaming!

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It’s impressive that natural gas managed to greenwash itself in the recent decade. Glad to see more people pushing back though.

@thesilentone4024 2 жыл бұрын

I think more places that make it like garbage dumps should collect it same with waste water.

@vaels5682 2 жыл бұрын

These companies need to be held responsible. Their blatant disregard for the planet we all share is disgusting

@aussiecath Жыл бұрын

I notice governments tend to focus on harder to change sources of methane and leave them alone. These companies have a lot of money. I have my suspicious about how it all adds up behind the scenes.

@rajendratayya8400 2 жыл бұрын

If our human intimacy is flawed we can anticipate all manner of problems in terms of consumption.

@arlenesmith5143 2 жыл бұрын

Water is also a major issue. Watershed comes from forests. Forests eat carbon.

@davidweaver9373 8 ай бұрын

be nice if someone would upload the benefits gases like CO2 and Methane do for the earth.We know CO2 benefits the earth by enabling plant growth so what about methane

@daofoa6123 2 жыл бұрын

This is surely not about geopolitics, right?

@suggesttwo Жыл бұрын

Why it's it being pumped into the natural gas supply? Why waste it? At least light it.

@unnikrishnannairkrishnannair. Жыл бұрын

I think that etane wiil be burned during lightning

@wulung5943 2 жыл бұрын

There are millions of old oil wells in US that are unsealed and abandoned. These wells emits hundreds of thousands of tons of methane every year into the atmosphere, an environmental disaster

@mrlucasftw42 Жыл бұрын

Literally just venting money. Stupid companies.

@rdyjur Жыл бұрын

methane is not scarier than CO2 at all in my mind. methane leaks are easy to address. Right in the video they explain that the tech exists. If you fix a leak today, the methane emitted is completely gone in 20-30 years. CO2 emissions on the other hand, has MUCH less obvious solutions, and it stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. Like all we have to replace combustion engines is EV, and those come with a bunch of environmental damage including some significant CO2 especially on the scale people want them ie billions of EVs.

@adventurelife_ Жыл бұрын

Let's hold them accountable

@TonzLanggoy 2 жыл бұрын

Birth control is essentially the solution to decrease methane. The increase in population also increases consumption, demand, food waste, agricultural waste and all other products that emits methane gas as biological waste.

@DWPlanetA 2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Actually, in our report, "Is overpopulation really a problem for the planet?," we found that the answer is not so simple. Check it out here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obt8YNRo1dqoh2g.html - let us know what you think in the comments!

@anthonymorris5084 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Overpopulation is the foundation of almost every single threat facing humanity.

@sectorgovernor 2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonymorris5084 true

@wilsonflood4393 2 жыл бұрын

You should know that comments are being censored. Those putting an alternative point of view are being taken down.

@DWPlanetA 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Wilson, you can view the DW netiquette guidelines here to understand how the comments work: www.dw.com/en/dw-netiquette-policy/a-5300954 Let us know if you have any more questions.

@0my 10 ай бұрын

It could be capped and used. Yet the Germans want to stop using it.

@za7v9ier 2 жыл бұрын

Gas always leaks.

@eddiekulp1241 Жыл бұрын

I thought methane came from belching cattle

@renegroulx7029 2 жыл бұрын

This guy has a 100 000 dollar camera to see this. 4:35

@redbutterfly88 2 жыл бұрын

Its gonna cut the cost, save more, technology is already available, easy to do and will save the planet? i dont see any why companies dont do this? But i will give this company a benefit of the doubt knowing youtube loves to show how easy things can be done but its actually not.

@zeideerskine3462 2 жыл бұрын

Burn sewage methane for heating in public cogeneration plants and AGA stoves that provide not only cooking heat but also central heating and domestic hot water.

@wilsonflood4393 2 жыл бұрын

I have studied atmospheric physics and have a PhD in chemistry. If you add 1 ppm of CO2 to an earth atmosphere devoid of GHGs you get a warming of nearly 6 W per sq m. Do the same with methane you get 2 W per sq m, one third of CO2. Methane is NOT a powerful GHG, you are being misled by people who are confused between the basic greenhouse effect and GWP , global warming potential. Concn of CO2 in atmos is 400 ppm, for CH4 it is less than 2 ppm (source of calculation is MODTRAN).

@Rocco-gx3no Жыл бұрын

Blue ocean event So yeah. Good luck with that!

@thegamingbird101 2 жыл бұрын

Every fart , the climate changes , every shart cut backs help

@moony2703 2 жыл бұрын

Given the current energy crisis, you’d think that would be additional incentive to get such laws passed and into affect _ASAP_

@aircombatmaneuvers Жыл бұрын

Methanos!

@suggesttwo Жыл бұрын

All plants emit methane when they die. Are you going to burn the rain forests to?

@lysandroabelcher2592 2 жыл бұрын

Add to this all the extra manipulation that the war will force to be done.

@mikeylau2830 2 жыл бұрын

How permafrost

@miiiikku 2 жыл бұрын

Because of methane, natural gas has potential to be devastating for the environment. Really natural gas isn't much better than coal. Coal is much better than we give it credit for. Its stable, easy to store, economical to mine and transport and widely available. Its good for heating. Coal alternatives, biomass and natural gas have potential to be truly pitch black.

@garethbaus5471 2 жыл бұрын

Coal still has significantly lower efficiency and higher emissions (especially particulate) natural gas isn't much better, but it definitely is better.

@miiiikku 2 жыл бұрын

@@garethbaus5471 Leaked methane is 200 times more potent greenhouse gas than co2 and big leaks are really catastrophic events. I would say natural gas has 90% of coals emissions. Also the infrastructure is expensive. All those investments could go to renewable energy.

@garethbaus5471 2 жыл бұрын

@@miiiikku As bad as climate change is greenhouse gas emissions are not the worst type of emissions a power plant can produce, coal produces larger amounts emissions(like mercury) that are significantly more dangerous than the warming effects of methane. We definitely need to stop using natural gas as soon as possible, but coal isn't the solution and it never will be.

@eldahalas7015 2 жыл бұрын

Ukraine, Iraq, Turkmenistan, Russia, USA, India, Bangladesh. Have the biggest Methane releases According to map.

@williewonka6694 8 ай бұрын

Tell us more Chicken Little.🙄

@robertjuskus8206 2 жыл бұрын

What about animal consumption...far worse

@DWPlanetA 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Robert, we've done a video on meat before on this channel. Take a look here: "Is vegan meat the 'better' meat?" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLqmgc2A16mdnIE.html - let us know what you think of the video in the comments section.

@AlanPater 2 жыл бұрын

@@DWPlanetA Who cares? Just eat the damn beans!

@CuriousKL 8 ай бұрын

All bull crap. Methane is 200 ppm. So what. The methane that enters the atmosphere today dissipates and becomes water vapor and CO2.

@enzofitzhume7320 2 жыл бұрын

We're All Going To Die !!

@anthonymorris5084 2 жыл бұрын

Ooooh so scary. It dissipates from the atmosphere in less than a decade.

@talisforstmanis1587 7 ай бұрын

(“Excretum Bullis”)³ !

@johnkennedy8059 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to today's episode of "The world as we know it is FUBAR"

@user-yh7kz9lo5s 8 ай бұрын

Do you know all asian are eating rice? Do you know the way rice are farmed? Do you know how much methane are rice farmers creating? I dont know. Methane is the gases that created by decomposing of everything. From organic matter, to all types of organism dying out to all types of things that decomposing in the nature and even human wastes, to pee and poo. Yeah. Methane maybe one of the reason why the planet is warming. But the biggest problems why the planet is warming up indeed not because of methane. From thousand of years ago. When the planet is full filled by all types of animals and plants. Methane is already surround this planet. But there are more human activities are more harmful than methane. By the way, those thermal-frost also releasing a lot of methane. 😂 how to stop human from making more problems?

@pedrolopes3542 2 жыл бұрын

If we stopped using gas and oil, we wouldn't have to worry about any of this

@Le_Blnk____ 2 жыл бұрын

The VA sounds like he lost his front teeth

@godq3 2 жыл бұрын

Next time hire lector without speech disfunction.

@yshrha10 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, my guy. But you should not be narrating with your lips and voice. It's just too hard to listen to.

@Co-km6cl 2 жыл бұрын

I found it very easy to understand and I'm far from being a native speaker

@timberwolfe1645 2 жыл бұрын

Disliked because of the Mhe- Th-ANE. My ears are bleeding from this guy's lack of correct pronounciation of methane

@drkdrk3818 2 жыл бұрын

That's just the British (and probably European) pronunciation. If you go to 12:55 you can see that other people pronounce it like that too. It makes sense for them to pronounce it this way since the channel is European.

@viktoraggerholm5102 2 жыл бұрын

Informative video, but the guy doing the voiceovers are simply annoying to listen to, I'm sorry for his inability to speak properly, but it just makes us viewers not want to watch the video.

@wonka4 2 жыл бұрын

agreed

@miquelbanchsipique2460 2 жыл бұрын

Climate change is driven by CO2 in the long run. I'm not sure how strategically wise it is to tackle methane emissions now. A quick but short-term (~20 years) spike in temperature may motivate us to tackle the CO2 problem faster.

@Kaepsele337 2 жыл бұрын

That would rely on us cutting the methane emissions in 20 years. Why not do it now? Also we're far from equilibrium i.e. we're getting more heat from the sun than we're emitting back into space, meaning that the warming hasn't caught up to the concentration of greenhouse gases yet. This means that the methane creates warming that will not be reversible by just bringing the methane levels back down. All that a delay in this does is to cost us time in mitigating climate change.

@miquelbanchsipique2460 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kaepsele337 The point is that we are not doing close to enough to cut CO2 even though it is urgent right now. If we cut methane, cutting CO2 will look less urgent, although it is what actually drives climate change.