2006-08-03

Increasing Methane Levels

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Lead author: P. Bousquet
Where published: Nature
Methane is an important greenhouse gas, and its atmospheric concentration has nearly tripled since pre-industrial times ... Remarkably, this growth rate has decreased markedly since the early 1990s, and the level of methane has remained relatively constant since 1999, leading to a downward revision of its projected influence on global temperatures ... Since 1999, however, they indicate that anthropogenic emissions of methane have risen again.
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