As environmental activists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)continue to focus all their attention on methane emissions from oil and natural gas systems, yet another study has been released showing that biogenic sources —virtually ignored by environmentalists in their efforts to “combat climate change”— are actually to blame for the recent increase in global methane emissions.
This new study by researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, finds a spike in global methane emissions has been “largely driven” by tropical wetlands and agriculture since 2007, as lead author Euan Nisbet explained,
