There was a huge global spike in one of the most potent greenhouse gases driving climate change over the last decade, and the U.S. may be the biggest culprit, according a new Harvard University study.
The United States alone could be responsible for between 30-60% of the global growth in human-caused atmospheric methane emissions since 2002 because of a 30% spike in methane emissions across the country, the study says.
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Methane is a far greater threat to the climate than co2. Most of the estimates you’ve heard about global warming are based on co2, and the spike in methane is going to make things far worse.
If you’ve heard about the methane leak in California, you’d know that a massive amount of methane has been released in a few short months from a single well gone bad. There are thousands of others from fracking all over the country. Many of them are already leaking methane as well but you haven’t heard of them.
The fact that natural gas burns somewhat cleaner when you use it is irrelevant. What matters is that those wells leak as the cement that seals them fractures. Even decades after they are tapped and finished, they continue to pollute the environment.
The great thing about Hillary Clinton as a Presidential nominee, is that if she wins, it’s going to be the job of the office of the President to convince you that fracking is still not the problem, and isn’t causing all these methane issues, because she prevented the EPA from dealing with fracking.
She’s married to that policy, so she will tie the government up in knots to convince us that natural gas has nothing to do with it.
Fracking just might be the straw that broke the camel’s back. We’ve done so much damage in so many ways. We just had to do this too.