No significant increase in long-term CH4 emissions on North Slope of Alaska despite significant increase in air temperature

Michael Tobis

Michael Tobis, editor-in-chief of Planet3.0 and site cofounder, has always been interested in the interface between science and public policy. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences where he developed a 3-D ocean model on a custom computing platform. He has been involved in sustainability conversations on the internet since 1992, has been a web software developer since 2000, and has been posting sustainability articles on the web since 2007.

” Twenty-nine years of measurements show little change in seasonal mean land sector CH4 enhancements, despite an increase in annual mean temperatures.”

“Our results suggest that even the observed short-term temperature sensitivity from the Arctic will have little impact on the global atmospheric CH4 budget in the long term”

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL069292/abstract

h/t Gavin Schmidt who notes: “Mainstream assessments have not been expecting much. (Some fringe voices have been vocal though)”