Releasing a shitton of methane would be geo-engineering. It's like 100x more effective per volume than CO2.

Apparently this pipeline explosion was the single largest release of methane to date and is equivalent an entire year's worth of other methane emissions (~500 million tons of methane). Other sources say only 100,000 tons were in the pipeline so the 500 million must have been fake news.

Although this should only boost greenhouse gasses like an extra 1% or 2% tiny amount this year so it's not a good reason to suspect Russia... but could make sense in a two birds with one stone type situation.

Releasing a shitton of methane would be geo-engineering. It's like 100x more effective per volume than CO2.

Apparently this pipeline explosion was the single largest release of methane to date and is equivalent an entire year's worth of other methane emissions (~500 million tons of methane).

Although this should only boost greenhouse gasses like an extra 1% or 2% this year so it's not a good reason to suspect Russia... but could make sense in a two birds with one stone type situation.