Posted on 07/27/2023 4:09:07 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday began a new effort to crack down on methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change.
The first-ever White House Methane Summit came at a time of severe heat across much of the U.S., including in Pittsburgh, where temperatures are expected to approach or exceed 90 degrees until the weekend.
President Joe Biden established a new methane task force to work with state and local officials to detect leaks and reduce emissions. The White House said billions of dollars of natural gas are lost to leaks every year.
In Pennsylvania, methane accounts for 12% of all greenhouse gas emissions. It is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere over a 20 year period, which scientists say is a critical time to prevent irreparable shifts in the global climate.
Methane emissions have risen in Pennsylvania since companies began drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale, albeit at a much slower rate than production itself, according to the latest state greenhouse gas inventory, which includes data from 2005 through 2019.
The amount of methane estimated to come from oil and gas production, transmission and distribution rose from 8.75 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent to 12.32 million tons during that period. The industry is the biggest contributor to methane emissions in the state, with coal mining a close second at 11.91 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent equivalent in 2019.
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The article is completely wrong. Methane content in the atmosphere is 1.9 parts per million. makes no difference.
They do a lot of that in Colorado.
Obama and Brandon made many power companies shut down coal plants and replace them with "clean burning" natural gas fueled plants. Only to now make natural gas the new bogey man that must be done away with. So when the power company pays more for their fuels (coal, natural gas, uranium, etc.) they pass that higher cost onto consumers.
[[The amount of methane estimated to come from oil and gas production, transmission and distribution rose from 8.75 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent to 12.32 million tons during that period]]
While,this sounds like a lot, it is really just a drop in the ocean. Our atmosphere is over 6 quadrillion tons, and a few million tons added to it is like dumping a 5 gallon pails of water into the ocean- it is meaningless, and no, it is not accumu.ative- nature has measures in place to deal with it. Our total contribution to greenhouse gases amounts to just 0.004% or so of the atmosphere-
To put that in perspective in order to show how small that amount really is, take a piece of cloth that is just 0.004% of your body- this square of cloth would measure about a fraction of an inch. Now go out into 0 degree weather wearing only thst small square of cloth and ask yourself “self... are you burning up from excessive heat? Will you die of overheating from the square of cloth you are wearing?”
The answer of course is no. It’s rediculous to think that 0.004% of the atmosphere can possibly heat our globe to decimating degree! There is no “thick blanket of greenhouse gases coml,etely covering the globe (or even majorly covering it), causing catastrophic world heating! There is only a tiny tiny ultra thin layer that takes up only 0.004% of our atmosphere. Nowhere near enough to cause catastrophic heat
We aren’t gonna burst into flames unless God sets the world on fire himself, and we have a guaranteed 1007 more years left- likely even mkre!
Woops- that should be 0.04% not 0.004% 0.004% is roughly man’s contribution to the 0.04% in the atmosphere. 0.04% is still way way to small to be “to blame “ for climate change! There is no way 0.04% of our atmosphere can cause catastrophic heating like the left are claiming.
“The White House is pushing to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas wells “
The e must cap them is way that they can never be opened again.
Methane comes out of garbage dumps-the natural fermentation process. In fact many of them flare it off so it is not an explosive problem.
BTT
I wish legislation could be introduced that would keep government bureaus out of such things & let people who know what they are doing to determine what might be really needed in these areas. If it continues as it is now it will mean average people would be priced out of any reasonable means of living. It is already at almost that point because of carbon legislation & I don’t believe there’s any real need for it. Some places may have unusual problems with certain types of emissions (and CO2 need not be one of them) but their problems & the “solutions” should not be forced upon every state. People who have no say about a so-called “climate crisis” are tired of having this unproven malarkey pushed off on them.
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