>So-called “short-lived climate pollutants”, or SLCPs, are emitted in various ways and many of them have the same sources as CO₂. The common ground is that they typically don’t stay in the atmosphere for very long – from a few days to a few decades, compared to centuries for carbon dioxide.
Accurate, but misleading in the case of methane. Methane warms much more intensely than CO2, then it combines with oxygen to form more CO2, which then sticks around for centuries, so it’s a double whammy.
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>So-called “short-lived climate pollutants”, or SLCPs, are emitted in various ways and many of them have the same sources as CO₂. The common ground is that they typically don’t stay in the atmosphere for very long – from a few days to a few decades, compared to centuries for carbon dioxide.
Accurate, but misleading in the case of methane. Methane warms much more intensely than CO2, then it combines with oxygen to form more CO2, which then sticks around for centuries, so it’s a double whammy.
[https://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/module-4/causes/methane-carbon-dioxide.php](https://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/module-4/causes/methane-carbon-dioxide.php)