{"id":559,"date":"2012-08-19T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/new-research-shows-natural-gas-far-more-dangerous-for-climate-stability-seth-gunning.html"},"modified":"2012-08-19T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:26:12","slug":"new-research-shows-natural-gas-far-more-dangerous-for-climate-stability-seth-gunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/new-research-shows-natural-gas-far-more-dangerous-for-climate-stability-seth-gunning.html","title":{"rendered":"New research shows Natural Gas far more dangerous for climate stability —Seth Gunning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Received yesterday on U.S. CO2 emissions lowest in 20 years: that's good and bad<\/a>: natural gas is methane, after all. -jsq<\/p>\n

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Yet another comprehensive article. I might also add that one of the major down-falls (if not the most significant) of large-scale conversions to natural gas is the resources lifecycle methane emissions.<\/p>\n

As your readers likely know, Methane is about twenty times as 'potent' a greenhouse gas as Carbon Dioxide. That is to say, it is far more efficient at trapping heat then Co2. So, less methane has a far greater impact on climate disruption then more Co2.<\/p>\n

Natural Gas, from the point of combustion, releases about half the <\/a> amount of Co2 released from burning coal, and about 30% of what's released in burning oil. To keep the benefits of reduced Co2 levels when switching from coal to natural gas, natural gas wells and transport lines must leak less then 2% of methane into the atmosphere. Recent research from Cornell<\/a> is showing that Fracking wells are regularly releasing more then 4%, and often as much as 8% \u2014far exceeding the 2% threshold\u2014 and thus making Natural Gas a far more dangerous resource for climate stability.<\/p>\n

Tom Zeller Jr. wrote for the NYTimes 11 April 2011, Studies Say Natural Gas Has Its Own Problems<\/a><\/p>\n

-Seth Gunning<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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