MDN readers have probably grown weary of us pushing the UN data into your face that the #1 largest source of so-called fugitive methane in the world at 40% is Mom Earth herself, coming from natural ecosystems (see UN Global Methane Assessment of 2021). The #2 largest source is agriculture, contributing 24% of all fugitive methane. And way down the list at #3 is the oil and gas sector, responsible (we’re told) for 21% of all fugitive methane. Which means 79% of all fugitive methane comes from non-O&G sources, raising the question, why pick on O&G when there are other sources that can be tamed for a much bigger bang for the fugitive methane buck? The research has been updated by the left, and the news is worse for the left than originally thought. An international team of researchers, including University of Wisconsin–Madison freshwater ecologists, have just published a new study that finds, “Freshwater ecosystems are responsible for about half of the world’s methane releases.”
