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Related: About this forumWorld May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist
https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/11/climate-change-two-degree-warming-fracking-natural-gas-rush-ingraffea
World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist
By Sharon Kelly
In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than coal.
In a sobering lecture released this month, a member of that team, Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University, outlined more precisely the role U.S. fracking is playing in changing the world's climate.
The most recent climate data suggests that the world is on track to cross the two degrees of warming threshold set in the Paris accord in just 10 to 15 years, says Ingraffea in a 13-minute lecture titled Shale Gas: The Technological Gamble That Should Not Have Been Taken, which was posted online on April 4.
That's if American energy policy follows the track predicted by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which expects 1 million natural gas wells will be producing gas in the U.S. in 2050, up from roughly 100,000 today.
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World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist (Original Post)
NeoGreen
May 2018
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I would like to see a graph comparing the gases produced from fracking with greenhouse
BigmanPigman
May 2018
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BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)1. I would like to see a graph comparing the gases produced from fracking with greenhouse
gas emissions, pollution from man and machines and the gasses from animals that man raises to eat(they produce a lot!).
shanny
(6,709 posts)2. 2 degrees Celsius / 3.6 F ...
It doesn't sound like a lot. But imagine your body trying to operate with a fever of 102.2 and getting worse all the time.
something similar with the flu a few months ago. I was running a low-grade, 101.0 to 102.0 fever for a week. I couldn't function. I had never realized that a fever could be so debilitating.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)3. We're toast.
Neo, think this would be worth cross-posting in GD? It needs more eyes.
Thanks for posting it here.
It needs a LOT more eyes.
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)6. Please do...
...I only have my phone for now, and it would take me forever.