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It's funny how the article portrays this as a key driver of climate change, when in fact natural gas displacing coal has significantly _reduced_ US carbon emiss
by Straw 2y ago
It's funny how the article portrays this as a key driver of climate change, when in fact natural gas displacing coal has significantly _reduced_ US carbon emissions over the last 20 years!
- jeromegv 2y agoIt’s the least worse option of the two options. And yes it’s been useful to reduce coal. But it’s still not good enough. Countries who don’t rely on methane gas (there’s no need to call it natural gas) have substantially lower co2 emissions. So yes methane gas is a big driver of climate change.
- Straw 2y agoNatural gas has about 5% impurities other than methane. There's no need to change standard terminology when discussing energy. Countries who use coal have even more emissions. 20% of US power generation comes from coal even now. More natural gas now, displacing coal, means less total emissions, even ignoring the particulate and mercury pollution from coal. So right now, natural gas reduces CO2 emissions!