GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. Time to burn that bridge to natural gas. Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz positioned natural gas as the bridge to renewables. Some people say this is the new normal. Former U.S.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

By ships, Dyson is referring to the massive tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG). Many LNG terminals were built with the aim of shipping the tidal wave of cheap American shale gas overseas, a trend that was supercharged after Russia’s war in Ukraine, which sent global LNG prices skyrocketing. In 2016, the U.S.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 3, 2021

In this case, the plaintiff was a young person who is the heir to a low lying farm that will be destroyed by significant sea level rise. The ability to run on natural gas today but also transition to biogas or hydrogen in the future may prove to be a very attractive value proposition.

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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. This ‘active ingredient’ in natural gas, is up to 28 to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Lot’s of Methane.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The event’s chair Diana Furchtgott-Roth – who is director of Heritage’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment – wrote an article for Forbes last month which argued that the West should encourage “all countries” to use “natural gas, coal, and nuclear” to help the poor.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Rising seas: A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences illustrates that global greenhouse gas emissions from 2016 to 2030 would cause a 20-centimeter rise in sea levels — and that’s even if countries keep their Paris Agreement pledges. So, with the U.S.

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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

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

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.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

On August 19, 2020, he issued an executive order on climate change, committing Louisiana to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Those plans heavily rely on approaches backed by the fossil fuel industry, a powerful lobby in the state, which include carbon capture and hydrogen fuel made from natural gas.

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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. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

Simultaneously, it will also need to meet rising demand from other fossil fuel switchovers, such as electric water heaters, heat pumps and stoves to replace the millions of similar appliances currently fueled by fossil natural gas. The infrastructure bill. Like an electric car, that commitment will seem expensive upfront.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Ciara Hart, President of the Young Democrats of Louisiana About 70 percent of Louisiana’s electricity is generated with natural gas, followed by nuclear and coal, according to the U.S. Utility companies and power producers have kept Louisiana dependent on fossil fuels, despite rising natural gas prices.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

That table which community members have been offered a seat at could soon be underwater, as sea level rise continues to quicken with a warming planet. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Flares at ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on September 2, 2021, following Hurricane Ida. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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