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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

Geostatistics can be applied to any spatially dependent data, and it is commonly used in environmental science investigations. It is mainly methane, which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat for the first 20 years after it is released.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, a 2023 study in Environmental Research Letters concluded that as little as 0.2 Nearly a quarter of them currently on the market would not be in compliance.

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