The Secret Gas That’s Worse Than Carbon Dioxide

“We’d have to leak 80 pounds of carbon dioxide to do the same harm as one pound of methane,” said Tony Ingraffea of Cornell University. Ingraffea was speaking to a reporter about an unsettling discovery: methane (CH4) is 80 times more dangerous than carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. Over time, methane remains 25x…