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Center for Climate Integrity
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NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

climateintegrity.orgThe Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate IntegrityHow Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

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670rv
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They get handouts every year and they use it thwart energy transition whose cost is less than subsidies they get! bsky.app/profile/mzja...

Mark Z. Jacobson@mzjacobson.bsky.social

The annual cost of transitioning the world to 100% clean, renewable WindWaterSolar energy for all purposes ($6.8 tril/y) is LESS than worldwide fossil-fuel subsidies alone of $7.4 tril/y (6.4% of world GDP) Subsidy cost www.imf.org/en/topics/cl... Transition cost web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

imf.orgFossil Fuel SubsidiesSubsidies are intended to protect consumers by keeping prices low, but they come at a high cost. Subsidies have sizable fiscal costs (leading to higher taxes/borrowing or lower spending), promote inef...
Ablokeimet
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If you want to close down the natural gas industry (& I do), give your argument a logical structure. The industry's selling point is methane burns cleaner than coal. Acknowledge that. Then list what that leaves out. Then attach numbers to it all so people can see how the industry is pulling a con.

Center for Climate Integrity
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CCI's Richard Wiles: Officials who justify natural gas expansion "by still claiming it’s clean or safe for the climate are using the same script & manipulated science that gas executives & their PR teams concocted decades ago. It’s time that these profoundly dangerous lies are finally put to rest."

climateintegrity.orgNew Investigation: How the Gas Industry Created the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas, Knew About Climate Harms | Center for Climate Integrity“The Fraud of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas” Exposes New Evidence of the Industry’s Early Knowledge of the Dangers of Methane and Ongoing Campaign to Deceptively Promote Natural Gas as a Climate Solution
Center for Climate Integrity
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A new poll from @dataforprogress.org and CCI finds that while natural gas greenwashing efforts have been noticeably effective, voters strongly support accountability for natural gas suppliers once they learn about the industry’s history of deception.

dataforprogress.orgNatural Gas Accountability Receives Strong National SupportVoters across party lines support accountability for natural gas companies that intentionally mislead the public about the harms of natural gas.