Posted on 04/22/2014 7:17:16 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Now, here’s something you won’t here on the mainstream news. Fracking has eliminated CO2 more than more than all of the solar panels and wind turbines in the world. John Stossel at FOX News reported:
On my TV show this week, statistician Bjorn Lomborg points out that “air pollution kills 4.3 million people each year … We need to get a sense of priority.” That deadly air pollution happens because, to keep warm, poor people burn dung in their huts.
Yet, time and again, environmentalists oppose the energy production most likely to make the world cleaner and safer. Instead, they persuade politicians to spend billions of your dollars on symbolism like “renewable” energy.
“The amazing number that most people haven’t heard is, if you take all the solar panels and all the wind turbines in the world,” says Lomborg, “they have (eliminated) less CO2 than what U.S. fracking (cracking rocks below ground to extract oil and natural gas) managed to do.”
That progress occurred despite opposition from environmentalists — and even bans in places like my stupid state, New York, where activists worry fracking will cause earthquakes or poison the water.
Do environmentalists even care about measuring costs instead of just assuming benefits? We spend $7 billion to subsidize electric cars. Even if America reached the president’s absurd 2015 goal of “a million electric cars on the road” (we won’t get close), how much would it delay warming of the Earth?
“One hour,” says Lomborg. “This is a symbolic act.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
could you elaborate on this? Is the point that the production method used in fracking is less CO2 producing than other production methods?
All congress has to do is stop funding ANYthing that has ANYthing to do with “alternative” energy (source(s) .. ) and put that money towards advancing cleaner coal usage ... KNOWING it’ll never be 100% “clean” .... deal with it. `
But its still bad because people are making money and money is the root of all evil unless you make money promoting global warming while jetting around in your private jet.
I think it’s that fracking drops the price of oil and NatGas enough that it becomes easier to produce electricity for all those folks heating their huts, so they don’t need to burn low-energy-density materials that produce huge amounts of combustion byproducts.
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil .... money is part of God’s plan
Yeah, but it doesn’t feed the ecohumanist religion.
Global warming alarmists have never created a job for anyone. They just set up foundations, scare wealthy lefties into contributing to them in the name of saving the planet, and live the good life off the proceeds. Man, I wish I could of come up with a scam like that.
I’m sympathetic to that argument, of course.
But seems it would be a bit hard to quantify...
Ahhh.... so we have the frackers to blame for our Global Cooling. I see.
The only bad thing about Fracking is all those Graboids you attract
The mistake here is buying in to the environazi premise that CO2 is harmful.
bkmk
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