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The UK helped usher in the coal era — now its closing its last remaining plant

The Verge: Energy

The caveat is that most hydrogen today is made through a process called steam methane reforming , which still leads to greenhouse gas emissions. And in 1900, coal met more than 95 percent of the UK’s energy demand. Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen fuel doesn’t create planet heating carbon dioxide pollution when burned.

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Gold Hydrogen – Set to Satisfy Global Energy Thirst for Centuries

Hydrogen Fuel News

’ The latter are produced through chemical restructuring of methane-based gas and become ‘blue’ when emissions are under control. .” ’ The latter are produced through chemical restructuring of methane-based gas and become ‘blue’ when emissions are under control.

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The Problem With Calling Fracked Gas ‘Responsibly Sourced’

DeSmogBlog

RSG is a new term used in the natural gas industry to describe voluntary reporting initiatives, centered largely around emissions of the powerful climate pollutant methane, but which may also include other criteria such as air quality, water stewardship, land impacts, and “ community interests.” What Is RSG?

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

In 2012, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn publicly accused Mann, then a professor at Penn State University, of scientific misconduct and fraud. The science behind the hockey stick graph has been continuously upheld as accurate, and is among key findings that prove burning oil, coal, and methane gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis.

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How steel might finally kick its coal habit

Grist

In 2012, he co-founded Boston Electrometallurgical (a.k.a. Hydrogen doesn’t emit greenhouse gases when burned and can be made by using renewable electricity to bust up water molecules (although most hydrogen today is made with natural gas, through a process called steam methane reforming).

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Does talking about climate ‘tipping points’ inspire action — or defeat?

Grist

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. But there are still unknowns about how much global warming would actually trigger tipping points.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. Systemic Failures of Oversight.