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Number fiddling on the road to hell and high water
It’s almost hard to know where to begin with the new on the IEA (International Energy Agency) site, Global carbon-dioxide emissions increase by 1.0 Gt in 2011 to record high. It’s one of the biggest...
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The challenge of natural gas
The Economist has a decent piece up about natural gas fracking, Shale gas: Fracking great. I say only “decent” because it underplays the side effects of fracking, like ground water contamination, the...
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Natural gas vehicles, yet again
The “natural gas vehicles are a huge environmental win” meme simply won’t die, thanks to media outlets like The Wall Street Journal doing things like this (emphasis added): The recent deluge of...
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Connecting the dots on natural gas
George Monbiot, talking about methane hydrates/clathrates, nails it (Japan’s gas reserves are worthless if we take climate change seriously) [emphasis added]: There’s only one way of knowing whether or...
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The insanity of a dash for gas
There’s been a fair amount of chatter over a Grantham Institute study (PDF) that says the UK can use fracked natural gas to reduce their CO2 emissions in the short run. One example: UK should use shale...
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Two policy head-shakers
Green Car Congress: US DOE to award up to $20M for research on methane hydrates [emphasis added]: The US Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory has issued a solicitation...
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IEA and natural gas projections
From a press release issued by the IEA (emphasis added): Contact: IEA Press Office, ieapressoffice@iea.org IEA sees growth of natural gas in power generation slowing over next 5 years But ‘Golden Age’...
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Natural gas, the media’s failures, and you
Dr. Donald A. Brown, Scholar In Residence, Sustainability Ethics and Law at Widener University School of Law, has posted a piece on this blog ethicsandclimate.org, US Media Fails to Educate The Public...
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