{"id":11809,"date":"2017-07-19T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T15:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2017-07-19T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T15:02:58","slug":"tracking-down-recent-increases-in-global-methane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/07\/tracking-down-recent-increases-in-global-methane\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking down recent increases in global methane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>EarthSky<\/em> had an interesting article this week on the uptick in global methane levels in recent years after &#8220;flat-lining&#8221; from 1999 to 2006. \u00a0The article gives an excellent discussion of where the methane comes from, including natural wetlands and agricultural production, and looks at how it is changing by latitude and how that can help us determine what the causes of the increase are likely to be. \u00a0Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, providing much more potential warming per amount than carbon dioxide, so climate scientists are very interested in understanding where it is coming from. \u00a0You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/global-methane-levels-hitting-new-highs?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=03a3779323-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-03a3779323-393619445&amp;mc_cid=03a3779323&amp;mc_eid=b22da16cce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/Global-Methane-Budget_1240-e1500384348583.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11810\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/Global-Methane-Budget_1240-e1500384348583-300x164.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/Global-Methane-Budget_1240-e1500384348583-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/Global-Methane-Budget_1240-e1500384348583-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/Global-Methane-Budget_1240-e1500384348583-253x138.png 253w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/Global-Methane-Budget_1240-e1500384348583.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EarthSky had an interesting article this week on the uptick in global methane levels in recent years after &#8220;flat-lining&#8221; from 1999 to 2006. \u00a0The article gives an excellent discussion of where the methane comes from, including natural wetlands and agricultural production, and looks at how it is changing by latitude and how that can help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11811,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions\/11811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}