Climate change: A crack in the natural-gas bridge

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Date of Publication: October 15, 2014

Year of Publication: 2014

Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited

Author(s): Steve J. Davis, Christine Shearer

Journal: Nature

Volume: 514

Pages: 437-437

“The development of hydraulic fracturing technologies has led to rapid growth in the use natural gas as an energy source. Some evidence has suggested that this growing adoption of natural gas might lead to a reduced greenhouse gas burden and consequent mitigation of climate change. This collaboration between five energy–climate modelling teams show that instead — under a scenario of abundant natural gas availability — increased consumption will have little or no impact on climate change. The authors suggest that expanded natural gas production and use is neither a substitute for a climate policy in the decades ahead nor a major new complication to the anthropogenic emissions problem.”

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