"If you put a kilogram of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere it has a warming effect that lasts millennia. You put a kilogram of methane in the atmosphere, the warming effect will disappear almost entirely after 20 years. So the amount of warming you get depends on the emission rate of methane", said Raymond Pierrehumbert: https://thebulletin.org/2023/12/mass-delusion-and-wishful-thinking-why-everything-you-think-you-know-about-methane-is-probably-wrong/

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'Mass delusion and wishful thinking': Why everything you think you know about methane is probably wrong

What’s really damaging is fooling yourself into thinking that eliminating methane has as big an impact as eliminating carbon dioxide.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists