S5E2: How tackling methane cools the planet fast |
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Carbon dioxide—CO2—is the greenhouse gas you’ve probably heard most about, on this podcast and elsewhere. But it turns out, methane is an incredibly important greenhouse gas too. Stopping methane emissions today is a powerful way to dampen climate change in the very near term—to keep the Earth cooler in the next 10 or 20 years. So today, Prof. Desiree Plata of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering returns to TILclimate to tell us—how do we get that done?
For a deeper dive and additional resources related to this episode, visit: https://climate.mit.edu/podcasts/e2-how-tackling-methane-cools-planet-fast For more episodes of TILclimate by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, visit tilclimate.mit.edu Credits Laur Hesse Fisher, Host and Producer David Lishansky, Editor and Producer Aaron Krol, Scriptwriter and Associate Producer Ilana Hirschfeld, Production Assistant Sylvia Scharf, Education Specialist Michelle Harris, Fact Checker Music by Blue Dot Sessions Artwork by Aaron Krol |