Posted on 09/18/2014 1:44:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ahead of the People’s Climate March, activists say Obama must address fracking if he wants to leave a meaningful legacy.
Later this month, hundreds of delegates will gather inside the U.N. to talk about climate change. President Barack Obama plans to attend the climate summit and reportedly wants work on a deal with other world leaders to “name and shame” countries that aren’t actively pursuing serious climate action.
But outside the U.N., thousands of activists will be protesting with one message: Whatever Obama accomplishes at the U.N., it won’t be enough to save his climate legacy.
The Obama administration has been tough on coal, directing the Environmental Protection Agency to severely limit the amount of CO2 that power plants are allowed to emit. But at the same time, the administration has embraced natural gas. Environmentalists say that embrace has created a chasm between Obama’s rhetoric and his climate-fighting actions.
That’s because a growing body of scientific evidence that shows gas development produces significant amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.
At the People’s Climate March on Sept. 21, activists say they’ll be pressuring the president to address his support of oil and gas. If he doesn’t, they say, he risks squandering his entire environmental record.
“He’s hoping that by killing coal and replacing it with natural gas, he’s coming out a winner, but the science is increasingly saying that’s not going to be the case,” said Anthony Ingraffea, an engineering professor at Cornell and a prominent hydraulic fracturing critic. “At best, his strategy means we’ll break even, but over decades. The Climate March is saying we don’t have decades.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at america.aljazeera.com ...
Which has more potential...unicorn scat, bigfoot scat, or loch nessie scat?
Yeah, he’s full of it...
This from al Jazeera, of Qatar, the world’s most intensive gas producer?
I think I smell hypocrisy.
“President Obama has a huge gas problem”
May I recommend Beano?
Organic food?
Isn't that the point? Natural gas is 95 percent Methane.
Just like global warming, the anti-frackers keep shifting their argument about the dangers of fracking.
First, fracking would turn our water flammable.
Then, fracking would contamine our water with chemicals.
Then, fracking would create earthquakes.
Then, fracking increases air pollution at the well site.
Then, fracking releases methane.
It is hilarious to watch these uneducated boobs with PHDs chase the next fairytale. Unfortunately, too many ignorant fools listen to the uneducated boobs.
But the real truth is that today’s environmental movement is nothing more than the lobbying arm for terrorist oil.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
But it’s not the climate it’s redistributive effort efforts that drives his perception of correct (right).
Meanwhile electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.
But it’s not the climate it’s redistributive effort efforts that drives his perception of correct (right).
Meanwhile electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.
I wondered how much methane is “leaked” by natural sources? I found this:
http://www.epa.gov/outreach/pdfs/Methane-and-Nitrous-Oxide-Emissions-From-Natural-Sources.pdf
Lots of shaky “science” there...
One ironic tidbit is that draining wetlands reduces methane emissions.
Fruitcakes like this group are what Cossacks were invented for.
So I guess we should all live in caves or straw huts...?
Who needs power to cool or heat their home, light our homes, cook our food...?
I look forward to wearing my lioncloth during the florida summer to stay cool...
So I guess we should all live in caves or huts...?
Who needs power to cool or heat their home or cook food...?
I think we will see the day when these idiots want us to release ‘greenhouse gasses’ to warm the planet and stop the ice age.
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