Comments on: Climate Change Report: WV Highlands “On the Chopping Block” https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/01/13/climate-change-report-wv-highlands-on-the-chopping-block/ 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/2015/01/13/climate-change-report-wv-highlands-on-the-chopping-block/#comment-154059 A P Mama Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:36:51 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=13547#comment-154059 This is a very good report, but it doesn't mention methane, a greenhouse warming gas that is approximately 82 times more potent than CO2 in a 20-year period. With fracking and pipelines, we have enormous leakage of methane into the atmosphere. Even if we stopped CO2 today, we would still be at risk from methane production. The next report must include information on methane leakage and speak of it as the huge problem it is. The world's attention must be drawn to this problem, which, in my mind, is a much greater, present, and immediate threat than CO2, and underscores the need to stop producing gas NOW. This is a very good report, but it doesn’t mention methane, a greenhouse warming gas that is approximately 82 times more potent than CO2 in a 20-year period.

With fracking and pipelines, we have enormous leakage of methane into the atmosphere. Even if we stopped CO2 today, we would still be at risk from methane production. The next report must include information on methane leakage and speak of it as the huge problem it is.

The world’s attention must be drawn to this problem, which, in my mind, is a much greater, present, and immediate threat than CO2, and underscores the need to stop producing gas NOW.

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