DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Now, Ivor van Heerden , the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, is concerned about the disastrous and potentially lethal consequences of a hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction south of New Orleans. When it evaporates, it’s methane.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Both are reliant on a steady stream of cheap natural gas. Although the oil and gas industry’s supporters continue to claim that natural gas plays a beneficial role in the transition to renewable energy, climate scientists have shown otherwise.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Sea level rising (not because of melting). Naturally the ice which is ‘floating’ in the Arctic will not directly impact sea levels when it melts. Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. It is other physics: water will expand when heated.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Exxon, for example, designed oil platforms to accommodate more rapid sea level rise, even as the company publicly denied that climate change was occurring. Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘Natural’ Gas. Except that methane gas isn’t clean.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As catastrophic fires spread across the world and large swathes of land are flooded by extreme weather events or threatened by sea-level rise, outright denial is no longer the most effective strategy, or these days, the most common. THREAD — Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 16, 2021. A Threat to Hamburgers.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. to power factories, heat homes and light city streets at night.

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