tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575361857149684460.post987063208307037511..comments2024-03-11T02:19:40.174-05:00Comments on Paul Douglas Weather Column: Snow Moves Out Early Thursday - Wide Range Of Snow Totals Across The MetroPaul Douglashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119711149976645625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575361857149684460.post-6535281164294403062016-03-24T06:58:19.298-05:002016-03-24T06:58:19.298-05:00Hey Doug K AKA Paul D, Tom Weaver here, son of Pe...Hey Doug K AKA Paul D, Tom Weaver here, son of Peg Weaver of Pelican Lake Cottage fame. Reading from Bill McKibben, for 350.org, and the research on methane from fracking. His email blast from this morning "At the Paris climate talks and elsewhere, U.S. officials boasted about the decline in our carbon emissions. Even Exxon, America's biggest fracker, bragged earlier this month that the "shale gas revolution" was driving down America's emissions.<br /><br />---- brand new satellite data makes clear what some scientists have argued for several years: lots of methane is leaking from the fracking fields. And since methane traps heat even more efficiently than carbon, our greenhouse gas emissions have gone down far less than we thought. In fact, depending on how you calculate the potency of methane, they may have gone up in recent years.<br /><br />That's terrible news, with one clear conclusion: it's time to stop fracking, period.<br /><br />We can stop a lot of the fracking happening in this country by banning it on public lands today. Click here to ask President Obama to end fracking on public lands now.<br /><br />This new data should help spur us all on as we prepare for May's big Break Free actions, since many of those demonstrations will target methane. And it should underscore the many ongoing fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction fights across the nation -- like this morning's action in New Orleans, where hundreds of brave people shut down a fossil fuel auction (held in the Superdome, of all places) to protest new lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. That new drilling would add both methane and carbon to the atmosphere, and we can't afford either one.<br /><br />Have you seen the data on methane from fracking? And as a climate scientist, what is your take on it? And how is a world citizen, like me to act and educate in a good way? Thanks for your kind attention and suggestions. Kind regards, Tom Weaver MD tall son of peg <br />Thomas Glessner Weaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05937855069086749632noreply@blogger.com