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The global methane bomb is starting to detonate
A hotter planet could be losing its ability to absorb our pollution.
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Atmospheric methane concentrations have grown at a record rate since 2020.
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David Fickling
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For all the damage that humanity is causing through our production of greenhouse gases, the numbers involved can seem impossibly slight.
Every year, we release about 9.6 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere as CO2 or carbon dioxide – but there are about 58 trillion tonnes stored away in organic and fossil matter in the atmosphere, land and oceans.
