CBS News anchor: Leave the leaves this fall. CBS News New York’s Vanessa Murdock covers climate and explains why letting leaves lie is good for your yard and the environment.

CBS News reporter Vanessa Murdock: “According to (David Mizejewski – naturalist, National Wildlife Federation), leaving the leaves can also help combat climate change. it takes them out of landfills.”

David Mizejewski – naturalist, National Wildlife Federation: “Underground with no oxygen, they break down and produce methane, which is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is.”

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Flashback: Physicist Dr. Tom Sheahen: ‘Methane: The Irrelevant Greenhouse Gas’ – ‘Water vapor has already absorbed the very same infrared radiation that Methane might have absorbed’– ‘The tiny increases in methane associated with cows may elicit a few giggles, but it absolutely cannot be the basis for sane regulations or national policy.’

Study: ‘Methane emissions have a negligible impact’ on climate

Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer has new study: Methane has ‘immeasurably small’ impact on climate

Scientists Dr. Richard Lindzen & Dr. Will Happer: ‘The warming added each year from methane is about 10 times less than the small warming from carbon dioxide’ 

You don’t have to eat bugs now?! Mysterious record methane surge since 2020 was not from fossil fuels but ‘90% due to microbes’

Is the AP now in the business of writing no byeline advertisements for GHGSat, a methane leak detection company?

At the bottom of the story, the AP writes, "The Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations."… pic.twitter.com/VzXsO2dm9X

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) November 1, 2024