Biden and Shapiro will make the Marcellus Shale look like the wastelands of Colorado in Atlas Shrugged.
if only we could plug the volcanoes in the ocean........
The PPG needs some regulation. Everyone at the PPG farts. They need to be eliminated.
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But yes, it IS OUR FAULT!
The Holy Earth Mother is MAD AT US because we MISTREAT HER SO!!
A million new regs and a $2 Trillion will do for starters.
And 'Enders' for that matter.
The Moronic Eco-Tyrants (METs™) are intent upon ENDING the human race.
There no longer can be any doubt of this.
This year, the federal government has attacked excess methane emissions on two fronts. First, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress passed charges for methane leaks that begin at $900 per metric ton in 2024 and rise to $1500 per metric ton in 2027.Uh huh.
I guess the irony of the NATURAL GAS part escapes them.
I don’t want to see another liberal behind the wheel of a vehicle or on a plane of any sort.
They routinely misrepresent the greenhouse effect of methane. In a controlled laboratory atmosphere, like in a bell jar, totally devoid of water vapor then yes methane has a greenhouse gas effect. In the open air, where the atmosphere has saturation levels of water vapor, itself the most important greenhouse gas, methane effect shrinks to nothing. Why? because the absorption frequency for methane is the same as the frequency for water vapor, and the superabundance of water vapor, relatively speaking, swamps and wipes out any measurable effect of methane.
The researchers driving this drivel know this, but they don’t tell the writers, who just uncritically suck down everything the “climate experts” tell them. Being not only ignorant but enthusiastic, as only true believers can be, they routinely repeat the nonsense, like the guy who wrote this editorial.
Water vapor accounts for 95% of the heat retention by “greenhouse gases.” 0.001% of atmospheric water vapor is from human activity.
Carbon dioxide accounts for 3.186% of the heat retention by “greenhouse gases.” 0.117% of atmospheric carbon dioxide is from human activity.
Methane accounts for 0.360% of the heat retention by ‘greenhouse gases.” 0.066% of atmospheric methane is from human activity.
If you include nitrous oxide, CFCs, and all other trace gases, 0.28% of heat retention by the atmosphere is due to human activity.
How about harvesting the methane for power production? Under the oceans are vast deposits of Methyl Hydrate, a frozen form of methane formed under pressure and cold. The combustion of it is as close to pollution free as can be. It will burn up the methane, and it doesn’t become the “super pollutant” the insane say it is.
I seem to remember instances of natural gas leakages recorded before the Industrial age. Delphi, home of the famous Oracle, was one of them. Do they intend to regulate natural occurrences?
Diaries from Sour Lake Texas (southeast corner near Spindletop) record kids going out in the morning and lighting the crawdad holes and watching them flare off the natural gas.