NASA, NOAA take part in methane study

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NASA, NOAA take part in methane study

Plume over Four Corners largest in U.S.
The Four Corners area, in red, left, is the major U.S. hot spot for methane emissions in this map showing how much emissions varied from average background concentrations from 2003-2009 (dark colors are lower than average; lighter colors are higher. In a new look at methane from space, the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah jump out in glowing red with about 1.3 million pounds of methane a year. That’s about 80 percent more than the EPA figured and traps more heat than all the carbon dioxide produced yearly in Sweden.
Colleen Cooley of Dine Cares, a Navajo environmental group, asks a question during a science forum on methane Friday at San Juan College, in Farmington. In the foreground, Tom Singer, of the Western Environmental Law Center takes notes.
Climate expert Gabrielle Petron, center, of the University of Colorado, poses with her students Ingrid Mielke-Maday and Eryka Thorley with the NOAA mobile methane lab on Friday. The vehicles will be taking air-quality samples in La Plata and Montezuma counties in the next two weeks.

NASA, NOAA take part in methane study

The Four Corners area, in red, left, is the major U.S. hot spot for methane emissions in this map showing how much emissions varied from average background concentrations from 2003-2009 (dark colors are lower than average; lighter colors are higher. In a new look at methane from space, the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah jump out in glowing red with about 1.3 million pounds of methane a year. That’s about 80 percent more than the EPA figured and traps more heat than all the carbon dioxide produced yearly in Sweden.
Colleen Cooley of Dine Cares, a Navajo environmental group, asks a question during a science forum on methane Friday at San Juan College, in Farmington. In the foreground, Tom Singer, of the Western Environmental Law Center takes notes.
Climate expert Gabrielle Petron, center, of the University of Colorado, poses with her students Ingrid Mielke-Maday and Eryka Thorley with the NOAA mobile methane lab on Friday. The vehicles will be taking air-quality samples in La Plata and Montezuma counties in the next two weeks.
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