Campaigners' anger over agency's shale gas report

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

29 May 2012 Last updated at 09:34 GMT

Campaigners' anger over agency's shale gas report

By Roger Harrabin
Environment analyst

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has infuriated environmentalists with a report on what it calls the "golden age" of gas.

The summary says gas use could grow more than 50% by 2035 if local problems with shale extraction can be overcome.

Only in the last paragraph does it say this would be inconsistent with a global temperature rise of 2C.

And it does not warn the boom could lead to a potentially devastating 3.5C rise until page 91 of the full report.

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[BlueToTheBone]

1. k & r

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[NickB79]

2. I'd bet money it also doesn't take into account the full emission profile of shale gas either

Recent studies have determined that fracked gas has the same climate impact as burning coal, since so much methane is released in the process of extraction.

3.5C by 2100 could be a serious UNDER-estimate on the IEA's part.