Again: if global warming is real, why lie?
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Useful idiots swarm in Aspen
You’d think that if there were facts available to support their hypothesis, they’d use them, instead of fake news
The Independent, Nov. 5 2020t: Climate crisis: Lancashire fracking site ‘leaked emissions equivalent to 142 transatlantic flights’
But:
How much of it was lost in the January 2019 event? The subhead says 4.2 tonnes, which a handy online calculator equates to about 268,000 standard cubic feet. That sounds like a lot, but at today’s wholesale price it’s worth around $800.
But still, 142 transatlantic flights sounds like a lot of planes in the air; let’s check that number out, too.
One kilogram of methane is the global warming equivalent of 28 kg of CO2, according to climate scientists. The 4.2 tonnes of CH4 equate to 118 tonnes of CO2 in terms of climate-damaging potential. According to this website, a single one-way economy ticket from New York to London has a carbon “footprint” of 0.81 tonnes of CO2.
118 tonnes ÷ 0.81 tonnes per passenger = 145 economy passengers, by my calculation.
Do you see what they did there?
The Independent’s blaring headline had me thinking we were talking about 142 jet crossings of the Atlantic, and you were likely thinking the same. In fact, their factoid refers to the carbon footprint of 142 passengers, not planes, crossing the Atlantic.
“Climate Crisis”? Hardly.
Put another way, the leak emitted methane equivalent to the output of a herd of 50 cows.
Great Britain has banned fracking, and will now rely on the beneficence of Vladimir Putin for its energy needs, just as Europe does. Who is at work in the U.S. conducting a propaganda campaign to achieve the same result here?
Just askin’.
