Fertilizer plants emit 100 times more methane than reported
Actual paper here:
<a href="https://www.elementascience.org/article/10.1525/elementa.358/" rel="nofollow">https://www.elementascience.org/article/10.1525/elementa.358...</a><p>My conclusions:<p>* A carbon tax would be nice to incentivize accountability around net- greenhouse gas contributions.<p>* This paper does quite a bit of probabilistic inference here. They conclude, for example, that the ~two orders of magnitude difference in emissions implies the model is working. ( <a href="https://www.elementascience.org/article/10.1525/elementa.358/elementa-7-358-g4.png?action=download" rel="nofollow">https://www.elementascience.org/article/10.1525/elementa.358...</a> ) This isn't super surprising since they're trying to measure methane emissions ~a km away from the source, but should measure our expectations.<p>Also, the whole dataset is available here (<a href="https://oneshare.cdlib.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.15146/R3WT2N" rel="nofollow">https://oneshare.cdlib.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.15146/R3WT2N</a>) if anyone is interested. Props to the authors for including it.<p>(Disclosure: My company buys quite a bit of inorganic fertilizer every year. None of it is US sourced though as we're operating in subsaharan Africa.)