Those who worry about CO2 should worry about methane, too
It’s the other greenhouse gas
POLITICS, OTTO VON BISMARCK is supposed to have said, is the art of the possible. And one of the most depressing features of discussions about global warming is their tendency to take place in a fantasy land of the politically impossible. Few people in those parts of the world made rich by carbon-dioxide-emitting enterprise are going to volunteer for a cut in living standards. And it is hard to ask those from parts of the world that are not yet rich to sacrifice the chance to become so.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “The other greenhouse gas”
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