{"id":18556,"date":"2022-02-01T19:05:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18556"},"modified":"2022-02-01T19:05:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T00:05:28","slug":"methanes-importance-in-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/methanes-importance-in-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Methane&#8217;s importance in climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Ilissa Ocko<\/span>, an atmospheric scientist, provides some details in this TED Talk that I hadn&#8217;t heard before. In addition to reducing carbon dioxide, which is important for the long term, we also need to reduce methane &#8212; which is important for the short term. The 3 main categories of methane production are energy production, waste management, and agriculture. She reveals that methane production could be cut in half today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tlWuP7wESZw\">Ilissa Ocko: The fastest way to slow climate change now | TED Countdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilissa Ocko, an atmospheric scientist, provides some details in this TED Talk that I hadn&#8217;t heard before. In addition to reducing carbon dioxide, which is important for the long term, we also need to reduce methane &#8212; which is important for the short term. The 3 main categories of methane production are energy production, waste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[34,95],"class_list":["post-18556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-climate-change","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18559,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions\/18559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}