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Emissions have gone down because of the fracking boom. Coal power plants are being replaced with natural gas which releases half as much carbon dioxide. https:

• tw04 6y ago
  The fracking boom has released massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere so we basically went from something we actively track (coal emissions) to something we don't track and thus aren't regulating or controlling (methane leaking from fracking wells). This is a net negative for planet earth... That didn't reduce emissions and may have actually increased them.
  • pg_bot 6y ago
    We do track methane in the atmosphere, that is NOAA's job. Methane in the atmosphere tripled from preindustrial times to 1995 and has started to level off since then. It doesn't look like fracking has lead to a dramatic increase in the release of methane in the atmosphere. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/carbontracker-ch4/ https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/carbontracker-ch4/
    • tw04 6y ago
      Leveled off? It's at record highs and has continued to increase every single year, it hasn't leveled off at all: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/1561/2020/ https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/1561/2020/ The NOAA tracking global methane has literally nothing to do with tracking methane output from individual wells - which again, we don't do. Moving the goal posts doesn't make you right. We DO actively track emissions from coal fired plants. We DO know that fracking has absolutely increased methane emissions: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/fracking-boom-tied-to-methane-spike-in-earths-atmosphere/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/frack... https://www.pnas.org/content/112/51/15597.abstract https://www.pnas.org/content/112/51/15597.abstract https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ed2 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ed2