Although fractivists are fond of labeling those of us who advocate for natural gas as climate change deniers, the real deniers are those who pretend natural gas can’t help.

There were some rather amazing comments on this blog the other day. They reveal the degree to which fractivists who love labeling us as climate change deniers will go to deny the contribution of natural gas in reducing emissions. It’s stunning, in fact, how far these real climate change deniers will go in ignoring the fundamental facts and rules of logic in defending what is clearly ideology, not science, in their own heads.

I’m talking about a handful of comments made by always angry artist James Barth, who seems, for all the world, to be in a state of perpetual agony and torment that natural gas advocates like me even live on the same planet with him. Here’s his basic argument from one of his latest bursts of dark energy:

1. Between 2005 and 2009 nat gas consumption in the U.S. was static, while CO2 emissions were reduced by 9.4%. Nat gas replacement of coal had nothing to do with it (in fact nat gas was expensive then), the decline in demand for electricity due to the recession which resulted in the coal industry closing their 50 year and older inefficient, polluting plants due to the lack of demand, had everything to do with it.
2. By 2015, nat gas consumption rose 20% since 2010, mostly used in the electricity generating sector, but emissions only decreased a further 2.7% approx. over that period. Again, more due to solar and wind coming on line, energy efficiency, and further large old coal plant closings. Energy consumption during this period was still lower than 2007 level.

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/real-climate-change-deniers-fractivists/