From fracking to flatulence: the all-out assault on methane – IOTW Report

From fracking to flatulence: the all-out assault on methane

CFP: What is the “biggest unfinished business for the Obama administration?” According to a report from Bill McKibben, the outspoken climate alarmist who calls for all fossil fuels to be kept in the ground, it is “to establish tight rules on methane emissions”—emissions that he blames on the “rapid spread of fracking.”

McKibben calls methane emissions a “disaster.” He claims “methane is much more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide” and that it does more damage to the climate than coal. Methane, CH4, is the primary component of natural gas.

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Apparently, his progressive friends in California agree, as they are now, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ): “seeking to curb the natural gas emanating from dairy farms”—more specifically cow manure and flatulence. The August 12 editorial says that the California Air Resources Board “suggests that dairy farms purchase technology to capture methane and then sell the biogas to customers.” It acknowledges that the supposed cure would only be cost-effective with “substantial government subsidies and regulatory credits.” WSJ points out that while California’s proposed regulations might produce the “least GHG intensive” gallon of milk in the world, it would also be the “most expensive.”

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16 Comments on From fracking to flatulence: the all-out assault on methane

  1. @geoff the aardvark and flower guy:

    In Greek mythology, Charon carried souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.

    In other words, he was the ferryman of Hades.

    (See what I did there?)

    😇

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