the news is methane

So the thing I forgot to mention yesterday was that methane levels were apparently flat for a decade or so. Here's how the NY Times put it.

Methane is produced naturally by swamps but also by activities including burning fossil fuels. The issue is important because climate experts have long worried that if Arctic permafrost thaws, the process would release potentially catastrophic amounts of methane into the atmosphere. . . .

Read the whole thing here. (It's short.)