Meanwhile, the Guardian covers new analysis which finds that a publicly owned electricity generation firm could save Britons nearly £21bn a year in total or £252 per household. The Daily Telegraph reports that the West Burton A coal power plant will be placed on standby and Bloomberg adds that wind generation is forecast to drop throughout Tuesday. In other UK news, Bloomberg reports that “the UK grid issued a rare warning that power supply will be tight on Tuesday and asked coal plants to stand by, as a snowy cold snap strains the system”. MailOnline adds that “parts of the south east and north west of England, south Wales and central Scotland, are most at risk”.
The New Scientist also covers the research: “With 1.8C of warming, the average yearly cost of flood damage in the UK is predicted to increase by 4%.” BBC News has published the flood risk map produced by researchers, revealing which locations will be most severely impacted by flooding. Separately, the newspaper reports on the impacts of the “Pennsylvania climate disaster” – one of the super-emitter events in the main investigation – on the local community.įlood damage in the UK could be reduced by 13-23% if international climate targets are met, according to new research covered by the Independent. It adds: “The methane bomb emissions are also significantly higher than the emissions limit of 380bn tonnes of CO2 from all sources needed to keep global heating below 1.5C, according to the Global Carbon Budget’s recent estimate.” These datasets show that tackling leaks from fossil fuel sites is the fastest and cheapest way to slash methane emissions, the paper says. It says that more than half of these fields are already in production – including the three largest, which are all in North America.
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That single leak was equivalent to the rate of emissions from 67m cars, or the hourly national emissions of France.” Meanwhile, separate data reveals 55 “methane bombs” – defined as “fields where leakage alone from the full exploitation of the resources would result in emissions equivalent to at least a billion tonnes of CO2” – the paper reports. The biggest event was a leak of 427 tonnes an hour in August, near Turkmenistan’s Caspian coast and a major pipeline. It continues: “The methane super-emitter sites were detected by analysis of satellite data, with the US, Russia and Turkmenistan responsible for the largest number from fossil fuel facilities.
The newspaper notes that most of the events were from oil and gas fields. More than 1,000 human-caused “methane super-emitter events” were detected in 2022, according to new data reported on the frontpage of the Guardian.
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