World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist

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Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University, outlines the role U.S. fracking is playing in changing the world's climate.

In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than coal.
An average global temperature increase of 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) will bring catastrophic changes – even as compared to a change of 1.5° C (2.7° F). “Heat waves would last around a third longer, rainstorms would be about a third more intense, the increase in sea level would be approximately that much higher and the percentage of tropical coral reefs at risk of severe degradation would be roughly that much greater,” with just that half-degree difference, NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explained in a 2016 post about climate change.

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