I trust Drs Anthony Ingraffea and Bob Howarth,
and I trust TXSharon and Oilfield Witness.
Best most economical efficient way to mitigate methane pollution is for our vile species to stop procreating. It’s free!
Ban the bible and all rape religions that are opposed to birth control and are pro rape and pro misogyny, and stop making human babies! Much cheaper and easier than multi million dollar methane satellites that go bust and pollute space.
My community (Rosebud, Alberta) is about to be frac’d again, by dirty criminal Persist Oil and Gas! Frac’ing causes massive amounts of methane to leak out to surface, via frac wellbores, around them and far from them.
Every human baby born, gives polluters and billionaires justification to demand more frac’ing which removes vital water permanently from the hydrogeological cycle and pollutes the air, destroys our climate, poisons and harms families, pets, livestock, wildlife and fish everywhere it greedy rich invade with it.
Every human baby born, harms the frac harmed (including me), more and more, and results in more frac harmed.
@race2extinct.bsky.social July 2, 2025:
No one says “overpopulation”—it’s impolite.
Environmental destruction is bipartisan, multicultural, and global.
So is collapse.
‘Long overdue’: Newsom makes sweeping changes to landmark environmental law to make space for housing
@charliesc00.bsky.social:
Ecological overshoot is a more meaningful concept, to me, than simply overpopulation.
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2023 (Vol. 21), pp. 21–39
The human eco-predicament: Overshoot and the population conundrum by William E. Rees
@race2extinct.bsky.social
You’re right. Overpopulation X Overconsumption = Ecological overshoot.
However, no one is willing to utter the dreaded O/P word so the equation remains a mystery.
@serenaribena.bsky.social:
There are still those claiming overpopulation is a myth! It beggars belief. We’ve already squeezed so many species out of existence. Human supremacists apall me.Me too! Elon Musk is the worst of all supremacists Leave room for nature!
@chistery1.bsky.social:
You’d think it was a hanging offense.
That’s not confined to #dearleader & rabid cultists.
Compelled to mention that they were always only profetus, not remotely #prolife
@race2extinct.bsky.social:
Hanging offenses are uttered more than ‘overpopulation.’ It truly is the dirtiest word in the vocabulary of humanity.I believe because misogynistic rape religions and the bible propagandized it so.
Methane-tracking satellite backed by Bezos lost in space by John Silk with Reuters, July 2, 2025
A satellite backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been lost in space. MethaneSAT had been collecting emissions data and images from drilling sites, pipelines, and processing facilities worldwide.
An $88 million (€77.4 million) satellite backed by Jeff Bezos has disappeared in space while conducting a climate change mission, New Zealand officials said on Wednesday.
MethaneSAT, which was designed to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions with “unprecedented resolution,” was also funded by Wellington and the US-based Environmental Defense Fund.
However, the satellite was plagued with technical problems and recently stopped responding to its Earth-bound controllers.
“Clearly, this is a disappointing development,” said Andrew Johnson, a senior official at the New Zealand Space Agency.
“As those who work in the space sector know, space is inherently challenging, and every attempt, successful or not, pushes the boundaries of what we know and what we’re capable of.”
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which was in charge of the project, said it was “difficult news” but would not relent in its efforts to track methane.
“We’re seeing this as a setback, not a failure,” Amy Middleton, senior vice president at the EDF, told the Reuters news agency. “We’ve made so much progress and so much has been learned that if we hadn’t taken this risk, we wouldn’t have any of these learnings.”
The launch of MethaneSAT in March of last year was a milestone in a years-long campaign to hold some 120 countries accountable to their 2021 pledge to curb methane emissions.
It also sought to help enforce a further pledge from 50 oil and gas firms made at the Dubai COP28 climate summit in December 2023 to eliminate methane and routine gas flaring.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.
Scientists say capping leaks from oil and gas wells and equipment is, therefore, one of the fastest ways to start tackling global warming.I disagree. Stopping human baby making is the fastest (and most efficient and economical) way. Oil and gas companies, their enablers (including NGOs like EDF), and regulators talk a lot, and lie a lot, but mitigate leaks not at all. They are just interested in more vicious profit raping and more deregulation (like Harper Con Carney is evilly providing). They do not give a fuck about earth, our climate, our lives, not even those of their own fucking kids
The EDF had received a $100 million funding boost from the Bezos Earth Fund in 2020 and received other financial support from Arnold Ventures, the Robertson Foundation and the TED Audacious Project and EDF donors. The mission was also carried out in partnership with the New Zealand Space Agency.EDF is in it for the salaries and donations, in my experienced and ultra opinionated view.
Edited by: Zac Crellin
Bezos-funded satellite tracking methane emissions loses power in space, And it’s no longer recoverable by mariella moon, Jul 2, 2025, engadget
MethaneSAT, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) methane-tracking satellite backed by the Bezos Earth Fund, is lost in space. Its ground team lost contact with the spacecraft on June 20 but tried to reestablish a connection until it learned in the morning of July 1 that MethaneSAT had lost power altogether. The team believes that the satellite is likely not recoverable. MethaneSAT collected data on methane emissions that have previously been untrackable in an effort to combat climate change. Methane is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide, with agriculture, fossil fuels and waste decomposition being the largest sources.
In its announcement, the MethaneSAT team said that the spacecraft’s observations have given us critical insight about the distribution and volume of methane being released from oil and gas production regions. Thanks to the satellite, scientists have also developed the capability to “interpret the measurements from space and translate them into volumes of methane released.” That knowledge can be used in future missions.
EDF developed the mission, which launched in March 2024, to hold the countries who previously pledged to slash their methane emissions accountable. It created Google Cloud-powered algorithms to calculate and monitor methane emitted in certain regions with held from Harvard and Smithsonian scientists. While the satellite itself is gone, the MethaneSAT team vowed to work with other scientists to leverage the algorithms and software developed for the project. The team will also continue processing the data the satellite had sent back.
Taxpayer funded satellite likely “irrecoverable” after losing contact with the ground by Eloise Gibson, Climate Change Correspondent, July 2, 2025, RNZ
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Space Minister Judith Collins has declined to answer questions about the loss of a taxpayer-funded satellite.
The New Zealand government put $29 million towards MethaneSAT, which has been lost in space after going off course.
The government invested in MethaneSAT in the hopes of growing the space industry.WTF? It was propagandized to track methane with intent to reduce life destroying fossil fuel pollution
The mission’s goal was to name and shame oil and gas producers that are allowing planet-heating methane to escape into the atmosphere.
RNZ has been asking about problems with the satellite since September and was previously told its issues were “teething problems”.It’s most unwise to ever trust EDF, or any other NGO that synergizes to enable fossil fuel polluters, and most unwise to ever trust a billionaire
Asked if the public had been kept adequately informed, Minister Collins said she had nothing to add and questions should go to the New Zealand Space Agency, which is part of the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment.
The Space Agency released a statement saying the owners of the MethaneSAT satellite had advised contact with the satellite was lost on 20 June and attempts to restore communication have been unsuccessful.
“Clearly this is a disappointing development. As those who work in the space sector know, space is inherently challenging, and every attempt, successful or not, pushes the boundaries of what we know and what we’re capable of.”Humans ought to be spending the billions of dollars and time and energy on cleaning up pollution on earth, and shutting down fossil fuel polluters, instead of causing more pollution, including in space.
“New Zealand has been a partner in the MethaneSAT mission since 2019, which is a collaboration with the US-based Environmental Defense Fund.
“While the mission’s primary focus has been detecting and measuring global oil and gas emissions, New Zealand’s involvement extended the focus to a science programme to investigate the detection of methane emissions from agriculture and other sources.”Yup, standard good old synergizing EDF, work to blame everything but the fossil fuel polluters and industry. Synergy, in a nut shell.
It said New Zealand’s involvement had “strengthened our expertise and space capability as a country” and generated 97 measurements over agricultural land including 13 measurements over New Zealand, which scientists at Earth Sciences New Zealand, formerly NIWA, would work with as part of their $6 million project using the satellite.EDF in my view, are dirty fuckers
The satellite’s owners released a statement overnight saying the taxpayer-funded climate satellite had lost contact with the ground and “is likely not recoverable.”
“While this is difficult news, it is not the end of the overall MethaneSAT effort, or of our work to slash methane emissions,” said a statement released by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the US group behind the satellite.
The mission has been plagued by delays, first to its launch date and then to the arrival of its promised data about global methane emissions.
The University of Auckland has been waiting to take over the mission control at its new, partly taxpayer-funded Te Pūnaha Ātea Space Institute.
The announcement of the satellite’s demise came just two days after the latest deadline for handing control over to university staff and students.
In May, the mission’s chief scientist said more intense solar activity because of a peak in the sun’s magnetic cycle had been causing MethaneSAT to go into safe mode.
The satellite had to be carefully restarted every time.
There had also been a problem with one of the satellite’s three thrusters, which maintain its altitude and steer the spacecraft.
MethaneSAT had said it could operate fully on two thrusters.
The new information helps explain why control of the satellite had to be handed back to its manufacturers in Colorado in March instead of going straight from Rocket Lab to the University of Auckland as planned.
The university had said it would still operate the mission control from a delayed start date of June, and staff had been involved in day-to-day tasks ahead of the full hand over.
The ability to learn from operating the satellite was a major rationale for the government’s investment, after early hopes that it would reveal new information about New Zealand’s methane emissions proved incorrect.
New Zealand scientists had raised questions about what they saw as a lack of transparency with the New Zealand public about delays to the satellite’s data.In true EDF form.
EDF, the environmental non-profit that grubs for big donations via synergy behind the satellite mission, told RNZ in October that the spacecraft was performing as expected and there were no “notable or particular complications outside the realm of what would be anticipated”.I’ve learned to never trust a word EDF spews.
But just a few months later, after more questions from RNZ, MethaneSAT announced that control of the satellite had been transferred back to its maker Blue Canyon Technologies so it could fix “challenges.”
When RNZ previously asked EDF if its response in October had been true it said the issues were “teething problems” and nothing beyond what was expected.
“MethaneSAT experienced the sort of teething problems that one would encounter with any new mission using a new platform (bus), but nothing outside the bounds of what was to be expected. The expectation was that developing an efficient, well-honed set of operating procedures takes time,” it said.
MethaneSAT acknowledged in October the process was taking longer than expected, particularly commissioning the thrusters.
However it did not disclose the issue with the satellite having to be brought out of safe mode until RNZ asked a list of specific questions.
In March, Collins was asked about the mission’s problems – but told Parliament she could not say because of confidentiality.
In February, the government’s Space Agency also cited the need for confidentiality when it declined to answer questions from RNZ about what was wrong.
University of Auckland astrophysicist Richard Easther was among the critics of the mission’s lack of communication about its problems.
On Wednesday, he said New Zealand needed a “no blame” review to understand “how New Zealand blew past so many red flags about MethaneSAT’s operation.”
“This is a tragedy for the people here who worked hard on it, and for New Zealand science.”
He said the mission “kept pumping out upbeat comms even after it became apparent that the spacecraft had major problems which in many cases appear to have been present since launch.”I repeat, I never trust anything EDF (or other synergizing NGOs) says or does
Full statement from EDF:
“On Friday, June 20, the MethaneSAT mission operations lost contact with MethaneSAT.
“After pursuing all options to restore communications, we learned this morning that the satellite has lost power, and that it is likely not recoverable.
“While this is difficult news, it is not the end of the overall MethaneSAT effort, or of our work to slash methane emissions.while enabling polluters to pollute more
“Launched in March 2024, MethaneSAT had been collecting methane emissions data over the past year. It was one of the most advanced methane tracking satellites in space, measuring methane emissions in oil and gas producing regions across the world.
“The mission has been a remarkable success in terms of scientific and technological accomplishment, and for its lasting influence on both industry and regulators worldwide.
“The engineering team is conducting a thorough investigation into the loss of communication. This is expected to take time. We will share what we learn.
“Thanks to MethaneSAT, we have gained critical insight about the distribution and volume of methane being released from oil and gas production areas.Given how dirty EDF is, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least, if the data collect so far showed oil and gas production to be the most guilty methane leaker/polluter causing Nazi Trumpie and kiss the ring Bezos to order MethaneSAT destroyed in space.
“We have also developed an unprecedented capability to interpret the measurements from space and translate them into volumes of methane released.
“This capacity will be valuable to other missions.
“EDF and MethaneSAT remain firmly committed to our core purpose of turning data into action to protect the climate including reducing methane emissions from the global oil and gas industry.Polluter lingo
“The advanced spectrometers developed specifically for MethaneSAT met or exceeded all expectations throughout the mission. In combination with the mission algorithms and software, we showed that the highly sensitive instrument could see total methane emissions, even at low levels, over wide areas, including both large sources (super emitters) and the smaller ones that account for a large share of total methane emissions, which were not visible from space until MethaneSAT.
“EDF and MethaneSAT remain firmly committed to our core purpose of turning data into action to protect the climate, including reducing methane emissions from the global oil and gas industry.
“We will be working with partners around the world to leverage the algorithms and associated software as well as the now-proven high precision technology that was developed as part of the MethaneSAT mission so the world has access to high quality actionable greenhouse gas emissions data on a global basis.
“We will continue to process data that we have retrieved from the satellite and will be releasing additional scenes of global oil and gas production region-scale emissions over the coming months.
“To solve the climate challenge requires bold action and risk-taking and this satellite was at the leading edge of science, technology and advocacy.
“We also will continue to work closely with our partners to reduce methane emissions and implement the goals of the Global Methane Pledge, The Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter, Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0, the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Emissions Observatory and Climate and Clean Air Coalition, and so many other efforts this mission was designed to support.”
