Natural Gas Climate War Heats Up - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Hooray! Natural gas could be the bridge fuel to the no-carbon energy future. Not so fast. Natural gas is just too damned clean, says a new study based on climate computer simulations by researcher Tom Wigley at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.“Whatever the methane leakage rate, you can’t get away from the additional warming that will occur initially because, by not burning coal, you’re not having the cooling effect of sulfates and other particles,” Wigley says. “This particle effect is a double-edged sword because reducing them is a good thing in terms of lessening air pollution and acid rain. But the paradox is when we clean up these particles, it slows down efforts to reduce global warming.”Not to be too cynical, as usual the solution (solar and wind) remains what activists wanted all along.
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In 1974 the CIA produced a report that "the science was settled" and that soor particles etc would plunge the world into global cooling without remedial action. All of European Russia, much of Northern China and Canada would be covered permanently in hundreds of feet of ice and snow without remedial human interventions. They had also developed a reliable model for climate forecasting.
The scientists who told the CIA of this "consensus" included several who are amongst the hottest warmist alarmists of today.
One wishes they would make their minds up
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