OUR OPINION: Hunting, fishing, hiking and oil development
November 28, 2012 at 3:00 pm in Grand Forks Herald
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OUR OPINION: Hunting, fishing, hiking and oil development
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You’re joking, right Tom? The amount of CO2 released by N.Dak oil, gas & coal will be a major contribution to the death of the planet. Read the World Bank & 4 other reports issued last week about the catastrophe we are ignoring as we approach the precipice of a terminally overheated planet. Don’t you guys read anything or are you just kept mouthpieces for the ND Chamber of Commerce?
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Fracking (like in ND) allows for more efficient recovery of natural gas. This reduces the cost of natural gas, and has led many power producers to switch from burning coal to burning cleaner natural gas. The result: the U.S. has dropped back down to 1992 CO2 emission levels.
While it’s clear that burning oil increases CO2 emissions (and global warming), I’m not aware of any evidence which suggests that the increase of production in the Bakken has led to lower oil prices, higher demand, or higher use.
TLDR: burning oil does increase global warming, but the methods used to extract oil in the Bakken indirectly contribute to a decrease in global warming. In other words, blame consumers, not producers.
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Whoops, I meant to cite that claim: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/16/us-carbon-dioxide-emissions-2012_n_1792167.html
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27 yrs. or 322 consecutive mths. of aver. worldwide higher mthly. temps. CO2 amounts are still increasing worldwide. CO2 is a cumulative gas so we have already raised the ppm to the highest # in 15 million yrs. accd. to the World Bank report from last week.
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