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Damage Report: LA Methane Leak Is One of the Worst Disasters In US History (inhabitat.com)

Posted by timothy on from the you-won't-feel-a-thing dept.

MikeChino writes: A week after the ruptured natural gas well in Aliso Canyon was finally declared sealed, we have a full account of the damage — and it doesn't look good. In total, 97,100 metric tons of methane were released into the atmosphere over the course of 112 days — the equivalent greenhouse gas emissions of over half a million cars.

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  1. Where's the beef? by wherrera · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd suspect there is more methane released by the cattle on the ranches of the US West in a month than was released by this background noise blip of a "disaster".

  2. Re:Equivalent to 500000 cars over what time period by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    graph

    Yes, vindicated. For those of you who didn't click on link it shows the "enviro-left" IPCC predictions vs actual temperature measurements. Not even close. If they practised science at this point you would trash your hypothesis and come up with a new one. Since they are anti-science and reality doesn't matter, only their agenda, they ignore this reality and tell you the models are what matters and reality is only an inconvenient truth to them.

  3. Re:Worst disaster? by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We won't know for a while. We'll have to wait for the final death count that can be attributed to climate change and then do some regression analysis. That's assuming of course that humanity survives.