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Huge Methane Leaks Add Doubt on Gas as Bridge Fuel
2014-04-16 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a "bridge" between carbon-heavy coal and zero-carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans' impact on the climate. The idea is that burning natural gas involves fewer greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal. The IPCC in its Working Group III report says natural gas as a bridge fuel will only be effective if few gases escape into the atmosphere during natural...
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