Abstract: The main issues causing scientific disputes and public discussions about the directions, methods, and speed of the Paris Climate Agreement implementation have been considered and briefly analyzed. Various alternative sources of energy use and transformation used in energy transfer, with non-obvious advantages, – solar stations, wind farms, and hydrogen energy – have been studied….
Category: CH4
Carbon update from the Ladoga polygon
The Ladoga polygon is part of a network of carbon monitoring sites, with Ladoga providing data for this north-west region of Russia. It stores large volumes of carbon in soils, approx 208 tC/ha which is the largest volume outside of permafrost affected soil. The region has not had any significant agricultural activity for over 40…
Remotely sensing methane over Tatarstan between 2019-23
Tatarstan is in the centre of European Russia, with an area of 67.8km2, and 4 million human population. 90% of the region is no more than 200m above sea level, mostly forest and forest-steppe with deciduous and coniferous trees. It has over 500 rivers, including Volga, Kama and over 8000 lakes and ponds. It is…