Posted on 08/31/2022 8:23:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — As winter nears, European nations, desperate to replace the natural gas they once bought from Russia, have embraced a short-term fix: A series of roughly 20 floating terminals that would receive liquefied natural gas from other countries and convert it into heating fuel.
Yet the plan, with the first floating terminals set to deliver natural gas by year’s end, has raised alarms among scientists who fear the long-term consequences for the environment.
Some scientists say they worry that the floating terminals will end up becoming a long-term supplier of Europe’s vast energy needs that could last years, if not decades. Such a trend could set back emission-reduction efforts that experts say haven’t moved fast enough to slow the damage being done to the global environment.
“Building this immense LNG infrastructure will lock the world into continued reliance on fossil fuels and continued climate damage for decades to come,” said John Sterman, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Natural gas contributes significantly to climate change — both when it’s burned, becoming carbon dioxide, and through leakages of methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas. Yet European nations, which for years have been leaders in shifting to cleaner energy, have proposed bringing more than 20 floating LNG terminals into their ports to help compensate for the loss of Russia’s natural gas.
Italy, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Slovenia and the U.K. all have one or more floating LNG terminals planned, according to Rystad Energy.
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Unreal that Russia is selling NG to China, and, China is (surely marking it up, and) selling it to Europe.
What a plan!
I think some European countries are approaching a ‘storm the Bastille’ moment.
and if not, they deserve oblivion.
“Pity the Nation whose people are sheep”
More humbug from AP.
Seems to be working for the chicoms. 😕
“Natural gas contributes significantly to climate change”
No, it doesn’t.
Agree.
CATHY BUSSEWITZ
Stupid air-head females flooding the media and airwaves with their gullible belief in deception and lies.
Hard to feel sorry for these gutless morons... I guess they fear imaginary climate change more than death by hypothermia...
Free nations should sanction anyone trading with Putin and never should have traded with dictators in the first place (i.e. the chicoms). Not one damn dime.
Of course the elites made us so dependent on the chicoms/ruskis for profit that doing so right now would probably collapse everything...
OOOh, some “self proclaimed” “scientists” are worried. Aww.
Go shut yourself in an airtight room. I’ll come get you out when there is nothing left in the world to worry about.
If someone were trying to sell me floating gas I would worry too
gas is better than coal. i guess the only solution is for Europeans to go without electricity
Didn’t Pres Trump do just that?
And, he was slammed by the elites/left for it.
So they don’t want to freeze after all.
right.....
Rather than cause dreaded world-ending climate change, the green movement would rather return to the de-industrialized Middle Ages with slavery and feudalism.
KA-BOOM!
This happy horseshit makes the point why our ancestors left Europe. F-em!
You misspelled buttwipez. 😲😎✌
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