Exclusive Satellite Images Show Methane Cloud Near Jordan Waste Site
We posted a high-resolution image of a methane cloud every day for nine days to highlight how common — and damaging — releases of the potent greenhouse gas are.
Scientists say reducing emissions of methane, which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during its first two decades in the atmosphere, is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to cool the planet. For the first nine days of COP27, Bloomberg Green published new satellite images of methane releases around the world, provided by emissions monitoring firm GHGSat Inc. The Montreal-based firm excluded data under contract to its customers — companies, governments and institutions looking to monitor emissions — from examples provided to Bloomberg.
A methane plume was spotted near Jordan’s capital of Amman. GHGSat attributed the plume to the waste sector and estimated its emissions rate at 4,876 kilograms an hour.