Climate change: Curbing methane emissions will 'buy us time'

Natural gas displacing coal is good for CO2 emissions, but afaik methane leakage across the supply chain is not measured very well. I'm afraid that our usage of natural gas will continue to increase because it's so easy to greenwash. For example various lobbying groups try very hard to push for a Hydrogen economy that is largely based on natural gas.

Let say we succeed to stop methane leakage from cows (algae feed, etc.) and also leakage from coal, oil and gas extraction.<p>How are we going to stop Siberian permafrost melting (it has huge amounts of methane ice) it has potentially 100 to 1000Gt (currently 5Gt in atmosphere CH4) which is enough to tip the temperature to 2-3C?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2021&#x2F;aug&#x2F;02&#x2F;climate-crisis-siberian-heatwave-led-to-new-methane-emissions-study-says" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2021&#x2F;aug&#x2F;02&#x2F;climate-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=osmzTSYRJJE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=osmzTSYRJJE</a><p>This is from 8 years ago but it is very relevant today: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kx1Jxk6kjbQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kx1Jxk6kjbQ</a>

Who is using all the fossil gas? Where is demand coming from? Residential? Is it a common source of heating for private residences in some countries? Which ones? If these countries are signatories of climate agreements should they not subsidize (with help from those of us that don’t need it) the phasing out of it?<p>Is electricity so expensive in some countries that burning fossil fuel for heat is cheaper than using an electrical heat pump? If that’s the case - wouldn’t a solution be to switch that around by taxes and subsidies so burning fossil fuels for heat is more expensive? (This of course assumes such countries can quickly switch electricity production if it’s using fossil to supply the electricity from renewable or nuclear).

I personally think the only way to handle climate change will be to force the more selfish US citizens to change their lifestyles. Just being realistic I don&#x27;t think they will change without a civil war type scenario. Or the threat of a war.<p>They won&#x27;t listen unless they are forced to. Period.

Is there a marine biologist here? Would it help to genetically modify plankton so that multiply more and sequester more CO2 than usual? But again having some kill switch after x number of generations so it does not causes other issues?

&quot;will buy China time&quot;<p>The niche between current temperature and end of the world temperature will be exploited by growing nations until something is done about rich countries exploiting their low cost production to work around green laws<p>I&#x27;m done recycling, reusing and downsizing until legislation is enacted to prevent my effort toward the environment to become someone else profit.

At some point (now) we have to consider birth control as an answer to global warming.<p>Edit: my point is that we cannot feed the same food (rice, meat) an ever growing population and reduce greenhouse emissions at the same time.