Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Apologies if this strayed a bit wider, but I had a question specifically about methane and possibly nitrogen. Dr. Glynn mentioned long-lived versus shorter-lived gases. I am also thinking about heightened intensity of such gases. If one is just counting the gas itself, on a longer term calculation, it may not be there in 100 years but the impact of its increased intensity over a five or ten year period could lead to a tipping point whereby that intensification, which I think Dr. Glynn called the radial increase, could lead to a feedback or tipping point loop, almost like the biodiversity issue, which we have seen recently in the Arctic.

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