We're shutting down a lot of coal power plants, which is very good, but most of them are being replaced with natural gas plants. Natural gas has about half the carbon emissions of coal, but natural gas is mostly just methane. There are many points along the entire natural gas infrastructure where methane can leak and enter the atmosphere.
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Yeah. Our natural gas (methane) use has increased dramatically. From a warming effect standpoint, our methane lines are leaky enough to make switching from coal to methane a complete wash. It is cleaner in that there is not a ton of extra garbage being burned but the warming effect is just as bad.
The smog from the coal was also helping keep the planet cooler.
Don't worry then, the smoke from everything burning should make us all right comfy.
If only.
The coal still has a net warming effect, I'm not saying it was a good thing.
We're all right fucked.
Dangerous escalation?
Oceans already acidifying.
Tens of Thousands of species gone extinct.
On pace to kill a million.
Half the world is on fire.
Other half is flooding.
Etc.
At this point, it's methane released from clathrates and arctic permafrost melting that's the largest methane source, which is a snowball effect. I'm surprised that's not even mentioned.
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