Correlation between paddy rice growth and satellite-observed methane column abundance does not imply causation

Affiliations

• ¹ Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. zcz@gps.caltech.edu.
• ² Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. zcz@gps.caltech.edu.
• ³ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. brendan.k.byrne@jpl.nasa.gov.
• ⁴ Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Zhejiang Climate Center, Hanzhou, China.
• ⁶ Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.