Climate Negotiators Are Seriously Underestimating Methane's Warming Power

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A sudden surge in methane emissions is threatening to undermine international efforts to halt planetary warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. And scientists are warning that the task of holding back the surge is being made worse because climate negotiators are underestimating by a factor of three the warming effect that methane will have over the critical quarter-century we have left to reach net-zero emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. As a result, scientists say, governments are giving far too little…