Natural Gas vs Coal, and what does it mean for the Climate?
Robert Howarth is Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology at Cornell University. He is an expert on natural gas & methane and their impact on the climate. In this wide-ranging interview, Prof. Howarth discusses how methane’s powerful warming capability (87X more effective than CO2 in warming the world over a 20-year period) and its high leakage rate from the extraction, transportation, and utilization processes makes it about as bad as coal when it comes to short-terms global warming.
- Dan Miller https://clubhouse.com/@danmiller999
- Robert Howarth http://HowarthLab.org
- Climate Chat Club at Clubhouse https://clubhouse.com/club/climate-chat
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Oil and gas companies have walked away from more than 2 million unplugged, inactive wells in the United States.
These unplugged wells emit as much carbon pollution as 2 million passenger vehicles per year.
These can be capped and create jobs.https://t.co/UzAcoTIrHM
— Paul Dawson 📚 (@PaulEDawson) July 5, 2021
Massive Methane leaks in US Oilfield https://earthclimate.eu/2021/06/04/study-finds-massive-methane-leaks-in-us-oilfield/
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