How Methane Wrecked Obama's Fracking Gambit
New science shows that in climate terms, natural gas may be no better than coal—and possibly worse.
—By Bill McKibben MotherJones.com | Mon Sep. 8, 2014
Hydraulic Fracture Pads in Wyoming-4 per sq.km
If you're a politician, science is a bitch; it resists spin. And a new set of studies—about, of all things, a simple molecule known as CH4—show that President Obama's climate change strategy is starting to unravel even as it's being knit. To be specific: most of the administration's theoretical gains in the fight against global warming have come from substituting natural gas for coal. But it looks now as if that doesn't really help...
...For a political leader, it was the very definition of a lucky break: Without having to do much heavy lifting against the power of the fossil fuel industry, the administration was able to produce results. In fact, it gave Obama cover from the right, as he in essence turned the GOP chant of "Drill Baby Drill" into "Frack Baby Frack." Not only that, the cheap gas was a boost to sputtering American manufacturing, making it profitable once again to make chemicals and other goods close to home. As Obama said in his 2012 State of the Union address, as his re-election campaign geared up, "We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly a hundred years, and my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy."
In his second term, Obama has become more vocal about climate change—and even more explicit in his reliance on natural gas to make the numbers work. Here's the State of the Union 2014: "if extracted safely, it's the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change."...
...Whether that strategy pays off or not, a likely result of the new EPA regulations, as Forbes magazine pointed out that day, is "the dramatic expansion of natural gas as a fuel for power generation." Some sun, some wind, but an awful lot of gas. In fact, the administration is so bullish on fracked gas that it is both moving to export more of our supply to other nations (it's even been suggested as a way to stand up to Vladimir Putin) and offering many countries technical assistance in learning how to frack on their own. (NTF: SEE: UKRAINE and R. Hunter Biden)A long list, including India, China, Indonesia, South Africa, and Mexico have taken up the State Department on the offer...
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/methane-fracking-obama-climate-change-bill-mckibben
Can someone tell the President there's a better way?
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"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe it!" 
It would make a good set for a science fiction movie.
So sad that this is what lies ahead for our country. 
Just look at that photo and picture the same injury to a human:
thousands of unhygienic needles stuck into the skin, each drawing
out as much blood as it can (to feed the ever more numerous parasites
whose toxins are then dumped in other patches of skin) and then, when
that area is deemed "dry", the needle is just pulled out to be moved along
to an unharmed patch of skin to do the same again.
Despite the obvious damage and total insanity of this behaviour, it is
praised as "vital" & "progressive" by the voices of the 0.1%.
