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Fracking,  Not Renewables, Is Responsible For Emissions Reduction

Andrew Follett

A rig contracted by Apache Corp drills a horizontal well in a search for oil and natural gas in the Wolfcamp shale located in the Permian Basin in West Texas October 29, 2013. At a dusty Texas oilfield, Apache Corp has eliminated its reliance on what arguably could be the biggest long-term constraint for fracking wells in the arid western United States: scarce freshwater. In Irion County, where Apache is drilling dozens of Wolfcamp shale wells in the Permian Basin, the company is meeting its water needs for hydraulic fracturing by using brackish water from the Santa Rosa aquifer and recycling water from wells and fracking using chemicals. Photo taken October 29, 2013. REUTERS/Terry Wade (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) - RTX15MPF

For every ton of carbon dioxide cut by solar power, fracking has cut 13 tons.

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Recent NASA studies show the Anarctic ice sheet is gaining more mass than it is  losing, ScienceDaily.com  reports.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the  Antarctic ice sheet had lost large amounts of mass with little or no gain, but  new NASA studies say the opposite. 

A new analysis of satellite data shows a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a  year from 1992 to 2001, according to ScienceDaily.com. The gain slowed to 82  billion tons per year between 2003 and 2008.

Jay Zwally, who led the  NASA study, said his study agrees with others that there's been "ice discharge  in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine  Island region of West  Antarctica. But in other areas, such as East Antarctica and interior West  Antarctica, there's been ice gain.


Ditto!!

 

Saw this the other day on tv. 

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