Pound per pound, methane is much more effective at raising the air temperature than carbon dioxide. However, CO2 is present at such high concentrations in our atmosphere that it is still the most important greenhouse gas today. Thankfully efforts are being made worldwide to stop slow the production of CO2, and environmental protection agencies give incentive for companies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.This is was made clear in Scotland recently when the Scottish environmental protection agency (Sepa) fined ExxonMobil £2.8m after a factory in Scotland owned by the company failed to correctly report 37,000 (US) tons. Though it is accepted that the company made a genuine mistake, Sepa is not hesitating to set an example. Hopefully such an pricey consequence will prompt other companies to be cautious.
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While Carbon Dioxide is an important greenhouse gas, don't forget that the book notes that water is the most important!
ReplyDeleteThis is only semi-relevant to the exact content of your article, and it is a massive over-simplification, but I thought it was a good illustration about the relationship between the public sphere/the media, companies contributing to pollution and politics:
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