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)
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Exactly. And how will all these demonstrators get there? In their jets and luxury automobile most likely. What a bunch of crap.
There are too many jokes in that headline. lol
Does it occur to most people that leftists/Obama
DOESN’T WANT YOU TO
“heat and cool your homes”
???
(or eat protein, have freedom of travel, live on your own property, on and on)
Great headline....Justifys my calling him BO since I first heard of him....
Another ‘bit of Irony’, they are against atomic, oil, coal, fracking etc BUT continue to push the Electric Car to lessen our reliance on atomic, oil, coal, fracking energy etc...
Maybe they think the ‘bird killers’ will produce enough power to run all the cars?......
How are they going to harness the ‘power’ of the ocean when they haven’t figured out desalination to boost the Water Supply?
Ships convert sea water for use, and am sure some countries do.
How can California claim to be in a drought when they have trillions(??) of gallons of water lapping on their Coast Line?
They will ‘blow’ their money on remedies that haven’t been proven to work yet the obvious just sits there.
For the love of all that’s Holy, natural gas IS METHANE!
HAHAHAHA!!! Oh no, my spouse has a huge gas problem—WOW!!!
I see Penzoil has a process where they make motor oil out of NG, supposedly, it is better than the synthetics.
Yes, the pattern / record indicates we are due for a big cooldown “soon” (in terms of geologic time.)
My tag used to be “Normal is Chicago under a mile of ice.”
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