2 - Friday, February 14, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, February 14, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Ot iioan DaIly 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETERSHAHIN KIRBYVOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 pjshahin@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandaily.com Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt. 3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales doilydisplay@gmail.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Stop calling Off course on Dance: Brazil Music: The Dad, really! the golf course hip hop debut Steel Wheels WHERE: Ruthven Museum WHEN: Wednesday at about 11:20 a.m. WHAT: A subject was reportedly fed up with unwanted calls from a fam- ily member. The family member was asked to stop calling, University Police reported. WHERE: University Golf Course WHEN: Wednesday at about 8 a.m. WHAT: Two vehicles col- lided, resulting in signifi- cant damage and possible injury, University Police reported. WHAT: 11 youngdancers from Rio de Janeiro dance under the direction of inter- nationally renowned Mou- rad Merzouki WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: Power Center for the PerformingArts Racquetball I fell! No, I remorse don't need help. Sex and Media WHAT: A fiddle, upright bass, mandolin and four- part harmony create a soul- ful mountain sound that has warmed people across the country. Tickets are $20. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark Double bass WHAT: Justyna Grudzins- ka plays Bach, Henze, Fryba and Bartok. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: Moore Building CORRECTIONS 9 Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. A month ago, man-with- out-fear Alex Honnold climbed the vertical face of a 2,500 foot mountain in Mexico...without a rope, Gawker reported. Fellow free-solo maniacs say the climb may be the hardest in the history of the sport. The Michigan hockey team travels to Min- neapolis for a season- defining series against No. 2 Minnesota in a match- up of college hockey's win- ningest teams. >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PAGE 7 Facebook has finally recognized that the world has more than men and women. Users can now choose between 50 terms to identify themselves, like androgynous, intersex and bi-gender, the Associated Press reported. 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WHO: Screen Arts and Culture Graduate Student Association WHEN: Today from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: North Quad, Room 2435 New study reveals methane output higher than expected Kerry meets with Chinese officials on North Korea 'U' researchers and space sciences, collaborated with co-authors from Stanford say leaky tanks are University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard a leading cause of University and 11 other institu- tions across the country. uinexpected emissions Kort said the team assessed the last 20 years of methane research By AMABEL KAROUB to identify how much methane Daily StaffReporter is really being released and how much of this methane comes from A recent University study the natural gas industry. Meth- revealed the amount of methane ane is the primary component of emissions in the United States is natural gas, which meets roughly higher than previously believed - a quarter of the energy demand in a lot higher. the United States. The study, which was pub- "Our, team reviewed about lisbed Thursday in Science 200 different papers," Kort said. Magazine, reported the actual "We tried to assess, 'What do all percentage of methane in the these studies say, is there a consis- atmosphere is 50 percent greater tent story here?' What we found than current inventories say. In is, indeed it looked like official 2011, methane accounted for 9 inventories underestimate how percent of all human greenhouse much methane is being emitted emissions, according to the Envi- into the atmosphere." ronmental Protection Agency. Kort attributed the higher To investigate national meth- amount of released methane, in ane levels, Eric Kort, assistant part, to a very small number of professor of atmospheric, oceanic faulty vessels holding natural -H-,o gas, which can allow significant amounts of methane to leak out into the atmosphere. Kort referred to these leaks as "super- emitters." According to one study of nat- ural gas components, "A fraction much smaller than 1 percent is responsible for more than half of the emissions," Kort said. "You know when you look at these individual studies that a kind of super-emitter problem exists, where a small fraction of sources are responsible for a large amount of the emissions." In recent years, natural gas has become a popular, more environ- mentally friendly replacement for coal as a fuel and heat source. However, natural gas the ben- efits can be offset by these meth- ane leaks, Kort said. Even so, the study found burning natural gas is still better for the climate than burning coal. In addition to releases from natural gas, Kort said other sources, such as petroleum sys- tems, livestock and wetlands are also responsible for methane in the atmosphere. As a next step, researchers will attempt to pin- point the locations of high meth- ane release. "We're trying to improve our ability now to use different space and airborne observations to identify regions where emissions are larger than accounted for to identify what source is the cause for that - if it's coming from cows or oils or gas." FOLLOW USON TWITTER Lwmichigandaily After leadership purge in isolated country, China's influence unclear BEIJING (AP) - U.S. Sec- retary of State John Kerry is in China on a difficult diplomatic mission. Kerry is meeting senior Chi- nese officials on Friday in Beijing to seek their help in bringing a belligerent North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks. Atthe same time, he's demand- ing that China roll back a series of increasingly aggressive steps it has taken to assert itself in ter- ritorial disputes with its smaller neighbors. Kerry faces a tough sell on both counts. The extent of China's influ- ence with North Korea is unclear following a purge in the isolated country's leadership. And, China has angrily dis- missed U.S criticism over its moves in the East and South China seas that have alarmed U.S. allies like Japan and the Philip- pines. In Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, Kerry made clear the Obama administration is putting new emphasis on getting North Korea back to stalled six-nation talks aimed atcgetting it to give up nuclear weapons. "Let me be clear," Kerry said. "The United Stateswill not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state. We will not accept talks for the sake of talks. And the DPRK must show that it will negotiate and live up to its commitments regarding denuclearization." Efforts toward that end, he said, would rely heavily on China, North Korea's only friend, put- ting pressure on Pyongyang. "China has a unique and criti- cal role that it can play," he said. "No country has a greater poten- tial to influence North Korea's behavior than China, given their extensive trading relationship with the North." But China's leverage with the North is being tested. Diplomats say Beijing received no prior warning ahead of the December arrest and execution of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's uncle, Jang Song Thaek, who had been considered Pyongyang's point man on China affairs and was a strong promoter of free trade zones being set up along their mutual border. That came on the heels of Pyongyang's snubbing of Beijing's wishes when it conducted a mis- sile test in late 2012, followed by the underground detonation of a nuclear device last spring. Jang's removal was seen as depriving Beijing of its chief conduit into the North Korean regime and in the weeks that fol- lowed the leadership found itself at a loss as to how to proceed. A delegation of Chinese diplomats led by the Foreign Ministry's deputy head of Asian affairs vis- ited Pyongyang last week in a sign that Beijing was attempting to renew dialogue with Kim's government, although it remains to be seen whether the North was any more receptive to China's pleas to return to the nuclear talks. Those discussions involving the twoKoreasthe United States, China, Russia and Japan, broke down at the end of 2008 and U.S. officials say they see no point of restarting talks until Pyongyang shows an authentic desire to make good on its prior commit- ments to dismantle its nuclear programs. Meanwhile, making the U.S. case for restraint and clarifica- tion on the competing territorial claims and China's bitter dispute with Japan may be even tougher for Kerry. Since sometimes violent anti- Japanese protests rocked major cities in late 2012, Beijing has continually stepped up its rheto- ric against Tokyo, dispatching its diplomats to make China's case in the global media and at inter- national forums, even dogging Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent trip to Africa. Recent weeks have seen China's ambassador to London compare Japan to the evil Lord Voldemort of the Harry Potter books in the pages of Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper. On Thursday,theofficialChinaDaily newspaper devoted a half page to grievances against Japan, while the Foreign Ministry revived the case of a 2010 confrontation between a Chinese fishing boat and Japanese coast guard ships to demand an apology and com- pensation from Tokyo. More worrisome, Chinese patrol vessels have maintained a more-or-less constant presence in waters surrounding the dis- puted Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea, forcing the Japanese coast guard to go onthe defensive to avoid a clash. Chinese ships have also stepped up their presence in the South China Sea, particularly in regards to the Philippines, which is seen by Beijing as weak and overly dependent on the U.S. for protection. Diplomats are con- cerned that Beijing may be plan- ning to declare an air defense zone above those heavily tra- versed waters, further raising the chances of confrontation with American surveillance planes and other military flights. U.S. officials traveling with Kerry said he would urge the Chinese to show restraint, cool down its rhetoric and actions, and clarify its claims consistent with international law. "The perception in the region and in the United States that is generated by the incremental actions that China has been tak- ing ... is one of a country that is asserting its position through extra-legal and non-diplomatic means," one official said. "That's not a good image of China, and it is not a pattern of behavior by China that the U.S. or others want to see." I I