For the climate Nord Stream gas leaks may be a new disaster
In the Baltic Sea the 700-meter wide pool of bubbling water caused a climate disaster by the rupture of the Nord Stream gas pipelines points. From the pipelines connecting Russia to Germany it’s the most visible of three major gas leaks emanating. One of the most powerful greenhouse gasses has escaped into the atmosphere, scientists are scrambling to work out just how much methane. It could be one of the worst releases ever. German and U.S. officials said the incident looked like sabotage but the cause of the three near-simultaneous pipeline ruptures hasn’t been confirmed. They all contained pressurized natural gas, the vast majority of which is methane while the Nord Stream 1 pipelines were halted and Nordstream 2 had never even started. David McCabe, senior scientist at Clean Air Task Force, a climate non-profit said “Given that, over twenty years, the potential for a massive and highly damaging emission event is very worrisome, more than 80 times that of CO2 a ton of methane has a c...