The Wall Street Journal today published an op-ed today by Robert Watson, the former chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Mohamed El-Ashry, a senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation and former CEO of Global Environment Facility. The commentary said reducing methane emissions was far more important than cutting CO2 to cool the planet. They said methane emissions are the culprit in 75 percent as much warming as CO2 and wondered why carbon garnered most of the attention at the Copenhagen climate summit.
El-Ashry and Watson wrote that "reversing global temperature increases by reducing carbon emissions will take many decades, if not centuries. So what can we do to effectively buffer global warming? The most obvious strategy is to make an all-out effort to reduce emissions of methane."
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