Tackling Climate Super Pollutants in China

Climate super pollutants, like methane, nitrous oxide, and HFCs, heat the earth faster than carbon dioxide. At the COP 26 climate talks in Glasgow, climate envoy Xie Zhenhua announced that China’s 2060 carbon neutrality target also included reductions in these pollutants. Nitrous oxides, generated by industrial processes, agriculture, and wastewater management, are 300 times more potent than carbon. More stringent regulation of these pollutants could reduce the short-term climate warming trend by more than half over the next few decades.

As the world’s top two emitters of super pollutants, it was encouraging that the United States and China prioritized cooperation on short-lived climate pollutants (SLCP) abatement in U.S.-China Glasgow Declaration. In the United States nitrous oxide emissions are 6% of total greenhouse gas emissions and in China, 9 to 20%. Reigning in nitrous oxides and other super pollutants also makes good business sense as the cost of abatement is often quite low and the climate benefit high.

[jimbojones]

Tackle the worldwide spraying of chemtrails used to geoengineer severe weather events and you might be getting somewhere . . . or are you too afraid and powerless to tackle the elephant in your room?