If you reduce the amount of , the level in the atmosphere goes down fairly quickly, within decades, as opposed to CO<sub>2</sub>, if you reduce the emissions to the atmosphere, you don’t really see a signal in the atmosphere for a hundred years or so. […] I had an invite to a meeting with Al Gore, some years ago now, and made these methane arguments, and he was really pushback. That’s just his argument, “It’s hard enough to get people to think about CO<sub>2</sub>. Don’t confuse them.” […] Some people say, “Well, let’s fix CO<sub>2</sub>, and then we can worry about methane.” Well, that’s the wrong. It’s the other way around that actually makes sense. Do something about methane, because you’ll get a response right away.
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