Meet Europe's Virtuous, No-Fracking Superheroes
Climate Action Now!
LNG tankers "boil off" about 0.1–0.25% of their entire cargo into the atmosphere. Each Day. Every minute of every day and night.
Not so much unable to unload - they're waiting for prices to go up. Burning fuel and boiling off LNG every minute of every day.
Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. Even though CO2 has a longer-lasting effect, methane sets the pace for warming in the near term.
Avert the Gaze - millions of starving people who cannot afford LNG are delaying "Climate Action" today. Oh the horrors of delayed Climate Action. What could possibly be be done today? No idea….
No idea at all….
Truth is that none other than Russia has been behind Europe’s anti-fracking frenzy. And they won the battle! From 2014:
I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations - environmental organisations working against shale gas - to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato)
If you don’t like fracking — I don’t unless we have to — build nuclear power and make your own synfuels, ammonia, H2, O2, electric energy, process heat, etc. Stop buying this from Evil People, cartels, and such. It’s not hard.
Europeans will eventually wake up hopefully before it’s too late.