00:00Spark Climate Solutions, a California-based organization, is working to accelerate research on methane through funding, supporting, and collaborating with scientists from around the globe.
00:15Methane comes from a wide variety of anthropogenic, human-caused sources, as well as natural sources. Human sources are different sections of agriculture, different leaks from gas and oil systems, and also different types of waste, landfills, wastewater, etc.
00:34We've also always had some natural emissions from things like wetlands and termites, but the overall methane emissions have dramatically increased due to human-caused activities, both human-driven sources of methane, as well as now climate changes that are accelerating some of those natural sources.
00:54Methane now is in everybody's gun sights because the effort to reduce methane can avoid nearly 0.3 degrees Celsius of future warming by the 2040s. So it's now the single biggest and fastest way to slow future warming.
01:14Some people in the scientific community believe we could be getting close to a methane tipping point that could become irreversible if we don't take methane emissions seriously.
01:32Here we are. We're in a tsunami zone. We are routinely preparing for a worst-case disaster scenario here in Port Townsend.
01:43We have no preparation for a worst-case scenario of a methane burst.
01:51But the sources of human-made methane emissions continue to increase. According to a report by the International Energy Agency, methane emissions from the energy sector could be underreported by as much as 70%.
02:06The world's five largest methane emitters, China, India, the United States, Russia, and Brazil, together, are responsible for close to half of all human-caused methane emissions globally.
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