Bill Nye tells us the fastest way to slow global warming

Record-setting droughts, wildfires, heat waves, rising seas and withering farm production are already causing climate chaos. Science has a solution!

Watch Bill Nye “The Science Guy” explain — in a way we can all understand — how methane traps lots of heat in the short term and speeds up warming. He shows how reducing emissions of the potent greenhouse gas presents a tremendous opportunity to slow warming. One powerful way to reduce methane emissions: fixing leaks in oil and gas pipes used in fossil fuel production.

Fixing leaks is the easy part. Finding them is hard. (They’re invisible.) But stay tuned for good news, as Bill Nye reveals how a new satellite will be able to help find methane leaks big and small anywhere on Earth.

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[haddow]

Another thing I've been thinking about is drying our organic waste to stop the rotting process.
With so much focus on solar power, we forget that there are different forms of solar power. We are way too focused on the more inefficient creation of electricity rather than the capture of heat. We can harvest much more energy in the form of heat per square meter of sunlight than we can with electricity.
It's also way cheaper and requires materials that are both in abundant supply and a friendly to the environment.
Take for instance, organic waste. What if you used a solar farm to capture heat and store it in massive graphite blocks. That heat could then be used to heat air and run it through chambers containing organic waste. Warm air, by its nature can hold more moisture than cool air. This will turn these chambers into low heat ovens as well as dehydrators.
The organic waste can be converted into inorganic matter, which can be swapped with a new supply of organic waste.
The inorganic material will be filled with nutrients that can be put into soils to enrich plants.
Also, the warm air if cooled, will release all the water it captured from the waste. So one could reclaim water from it too. This cooling process can be powered by solar too. Use the heat from the graphite to heat long vertical pipes. This will heat the air inside them, making it rise. This will create an inflow of cool air at the bottom. Use that source of flowing cool air to cool the warm waste air from the organic waste chambers to get it to drop it's water. When the heat transfers to the air going into the pipe, it will contribute to the process of moving the air, which means the pipe won't need to be heated as much from the graphite. Or, it will on the other hand speed up its flow as the warmer the air, the more quickly it will rise.
This also leads to another valuable aspect. If you manage to dry the heated organic waste air considerably, you can create a closed circuit and just run it back to the graphite blocks. This means that you never have to release the stinky air to the outside. Likely a lot of the contaminates in the air will drop with the condensation, so you can the filter them out of the water. Also, likely there would need to be some air processing as methane will buildup in the air, so that aspect can't be completely closed.
Still, you can drastically reduce methane production, reclaim water, create nutrient rich inorganic matter to fertilize farms with, all with heat from the sun. The graphite blocks can ensure even regular heat output at night, cloudy days, and even winter.

[markschuette]

hey Bill- the real quickest way to slow climate change is- extreme energy efficiency! we waste 1/2 the energy we produce! we learned this back in the early 80's at the first energy crisis ! but the only way to do that is TAX pollution of all types.

[janestackhouse]

And let's help stop those leaks by going with electric heat pumps. Cut the methane off at the streets. The Federal Gov has tax rebates for the heat pumps. Your gas company will shut off you gas for free, just for the asking. If everyone in your block, or neighborhood, or city does it then no methane will flow through those pipes.

[wesleyhite]

The best way to end toxic gas, is for him to put a sock in it!

[ezrapotter]

So he’s not discouraging us from eating red meat?

[ethanlazuk]

Climate change needs a solution. Hoping someone steps up.

[zaunacat]

I want this to go viral in the best way. We're so close to the end it's unbearable to just sit anymore

[Mangoboi]

Everybody step aside Ill be the one who protect this mans Bowtie. This giys bowtie just keeping Engulfing in flames

[johnwheeler]

Bill Nye always reminded me of Steve Vai. Both flamboyant, good guys.

[frxnksisthegoat]

"safety glasses off motherphakers."

[christophertheiss]

Why not just add Beano to cattle and pig feed?

[katherinecooper]

When humans fart or burp - how much methane is released into the air?

[EnriqueCubillo]

Teach all transport sports and eat more plants. SpikeBoarding skiing and cycling will help most.

[glike]

Could also put a catalytic converter on the outflow of enclosed livestock to convert to CO2

[hugomarquez]

To talk about methane emissions and not talk about animal agriculture, I mean, you look quite silly, almost as if you’re compromised by a certain industry. Address the elephant in the room, this doesn’t change unless people change their diets.

[Ivan_BSGO]

I've been laughing at Bill ever since he was debunked by NOAA over hurricanes. Bill is a mechanical engineer (which i do respect) gone tv personality. He knows nothing about climate and has proved it over and over again.

[davidblyth]

Why is he called the "Science guy"?
Humans' activities are restricted to the earth's surface (radius 6, 371 km):
-between 6 km above and 3 km below
-less than 30% of the globe is land mass and people are active on only a small fraction of that land mass
Compared to the earth's core's energy, gases, etc, human influence is miniscule!