I’m going to say something here that might surprise you… are you ready?
Fossil fuel CEOs and the craven politicians who enable them are not always honest.
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Exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, despite fossil-fuel industry claims that it is a cleaner alternative, according to a major new research paper challenging the controversial yet rapid expansion of gas exports from the US to Europe and Asia.
The research, which has become enmeshed in a political argument in the US, has concluded that liquefied natural gas (LNG) is 33% worse in terms of planet-heating emissions over a 20-year period compared with coal.
“The idea that coal is worse for the climate is mistaken – LNG has a larger greenhouse gas footprint than any other fuel,” said Robert Howarth, an environmental scientist at Cornell University and author of the new paper.
“To think we should be shipping around this gas as a climate solution is just plain wrong. It’s greenwashing from oil and gas companies that has severely underestimated the emissions from this type of energy.”
Drilling, moving, cooling, and shipping gas from one country to another uses so much energy that the actual final burning of gas in people’s homes and businesses only accounts for about a third of the total emissions from this process, the research finds.
The large resulting emissions mean that “ending the use of LNG should be a global priority.”
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LEARN MORE -- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/exported-liquefied-natural-gas-coal-study
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