Comments on: Speaking Out About Fracking is Very Timely https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/12/08/speaking-out-about-fracking-is-very-timely/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: A P Mama https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/12/08/speaking-out-about-fracking-is-very-timely/#comment-140017 A P Mama Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:55:20 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=13276#comment-140017 This collection is brilliant and a little disturbing. It is both heartening and disheartening to see the variation in understanding, the levels of hypocrisy, the true hopelessness of the truth here. The sad part is that we are not having these conversations, and that is what will kill us. When Brantley says we are putting a boatload of CO2 into the atmosphere, she isn't wrong. According to the a publication by Cambridge University Press, "Global methane levels, have risen to 1800 parts per billion (ppb) by 2011, an increase by a factor of 2.5 since pre-industrial times, from 722 ppb, the highest value in at least 800,000 years." Methane is much worse for the warming of the planet, and a greater threat than CO2 by far, but no one is talking about that, either. By the time today's methane's effect is complete (20 years), we will be out of water. Then we will wish we had had these conversations much earlier, to say the least! This collection is brilliant and a little disturbing. It is both heartening and disheartening to see the variation in understanding, the levels of hypocrisy, the true hopelessness of the truth here. The sad part is that we are not having these conversations, and that is what will kill us.

When Brantley says we are putting a boatload of CO2 into the atmosphere, she isn’t wrong. According to the a publication by Cambridge University Press, “Global methane levels, have risen to 1800 parts per billion (ppb) by 2011, an increase by a factor of 2.5 since pre-industrial times, from 722 ppb, the highest value in at least 800,000 years.”

Methane is much worse for the warming of the planet, and a greater threat than CO2 by far, but no one is talking about that, either. By the time today’s methane’s effect is complete (20 years), we will be out of water.

Then we will wish we had had these conversations much earlier, to say the least!

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