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Fracked gas is NOT a bridge Fuel or Green Energy

Randi Pokladnick, Ph.D.

By: Randi Pokladnick, Ph.D.

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Dec 31, 2019

1 min read

The Paris Accord’s target of keeping the maximum global temperature rise this century at two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels seems an almost impossible goal as our leaders are failing to address the crisis. The Russian Arctic has reached 100.4 F, the highest temperature since record-keeping began in 1885. This region, according to NOAA “is seeing atmospheric warming since the mid “1990s at more than twice the magnitude of global mean temperatures.” For many years both sides of the political aisles have been telling us that natural gas is a “bridge fuel.” They note the lower amount of carbon dioxide emissions from combustion of gas over coal and diesel. But, even though Ohio’s HB507 has labeled fracked gas as a green energy source; it is not.

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