In the past, rapid changes in atmospheric methane have signaled rapid global climate shifts.

Does atmospheric methane’s recent growth, sustained from the end of 2006 through 2022 and continuing, similarly signal a major global climate shift? Atmospheric methane’s unprecedented current growth, which in part may be driven by surging wetland emissions, has strong similarities to ice core methane records during glacial-interglacial “termination” events marking global reorganizations of the planetary climate system. In this article the current and termination-event methane records is compared  to test the hypothesis that a termination-scale change may currently be in progress.

Klimaat (verandering) : Onderzoek