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Perhaps I'm confused. While I think natural gas is much better than coal, much cleaner, it is still burning a hydocarbon and producing carbon dioxide. Does it really produce less carbon emissions, or it is just less pollutants?
I don't know how to answer your questions, but I do know that in order to drill/find natural gas - current technology only uses machinery that relies on petroleum. So even though she may think CO2 emissions are going to decrease dramatically, it will not happen overnight or anytime in the near future with her energy policy.
Very misleading headline. Natural gas is quite a bit different than oil from a global-warming, carbon-emission perspective.
There's a good chance that fossil fuels will be necessary for a while. (For freight as one example.) If we are going to need them, we should use the cleanest one — natural gas.
Sarah Palin is a complete and utter fraud who will say or do anything to an attempt to remain relevant.
Just say no to Failin' Palin.
I agree with brownjeans, while drilling for and using natural gas is certainly not the way to fight global warming, printing a misleading title to the article is a serious detriment to the credibility of your reporting.
Sarah Palin offers so much fodder for criticism, why not just report things accurately?
You can see Russia from Alaska and it shares a border with Canada. Also there is ice and snow even during the summer in places. Since Russia, Canada, and Alaska are all snowy and share borders and produce petroleum products because God made dinosaurs that lived there, in all three places, more than 500 years ago, Palin is an expert in global warming, foreign policy, energy, and abstinence-only sex ed for mooses.
I agree that the title is misleading. The post as a whole is also misleading. Natural gas is, from everything I have read, cleaner burning and, from an environmental perspective, better than oil. If there is evidence suggesting that drilling for natural gas is not an improvement over drilling for oil, I would like to hear that argument.
Perhaps Palin is wrong on policy. Maybe the resources spent on drilling for natural gas would be better spent on other projects. Does an Alaskan dollar go further towards combatting climate change by investing in wind power than in natural gas? If so, say so and tell us why. A mere assertion that advocating for natural gas production is inconstent with environmental goals gets us nowhere.
Further proof that Sarah Palin is an opportunistic idiot. Next subject please.
Palin is one species I would be glad to see go extinct.
While I'm no fan of Palin, for many reasons, it looks like she is right this time. Natural gas power plants do produce less CO2 than coal plants.
The CO2 emissions from Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) plants are reduced relative to those produced by burning coal given the same power output because of the higher heat content of natural gas, the lower carbon intensity of gas relative to coal, and the higher overall efficiency of the NGCC plant relative to a coal-fired plant (1).
Not even Palin can be wrong all the time, lol.
Reference:
http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/gas-vs-coal.html
Sort of like having sex to prevent pregnancy strategy that Bristol was using. I'm starting to figure out how they think.
I feel sorry for Alaskans, they sure got what they voted for. She has the most repulsive character I can think of.
Sarah Palin needs to go back to school, better yet, I wish she would just go camping with wolves and polar bears, they will teach her a thing or two about global warming...
Brian, this is a heavily opinionated article and tends to direct readers towards a very narrow view of the event. Namely, your view. the article is forcing your opinion of Palin (which I assure you is shared by a great many of those who watched her TV appearances) onto the reader, thereby blocking an opinion we might form by ourselvesselves.
While I agree that Palin is one of the more humorous jokes in political history, It would be better if you posted articles from a neutral standpoint. People are already aware of Palin and her various ...er... opinions, but writing an article on a forum which is very obviously rubbing it in her face is very 'tabloid'.
now that I finished my rant, what in gods name is that woman doing? STOP DRILLING FOR MORE FOSSIL FUELS!! However clean a burn, it still releases CO2. which causes global warming. go electric...
Palin is right. Are you really out to protect the environment or are you just playing politics? Treehugger, get your house in order, please. I read you for your mission, not your politics.
huh? AM I the only one who thinks she has really lost it this time? I'm at a loss honestly... wow
for all you who think this article is misleading, I offer you this analogy:
Imagine Coal is a Big Mac, Natural Gas is a Slim Fast, and fighting climate change is going on a diet. America has already ordered a Big Mac -- its on our plate and we are eating it right now. Palin proposes we go back and order a Slim Fast because it has fewer calories than the Big Mac, but she doesn't say we should stop eating to Big Mac. So if we follow her advice, we eat the whole Big Mac and wash it down with a low calorie Slimfast. Who expects to lose weight?
The point is that mining more natural gas can be part of a strategy to fight climate change, bu only if mining less coal (or gasoline, or diesel) is part of that strategy as well. If we just mine the natural gas and do nothing else differently, we aren't fighting climate change.
Can anyone say Nuclear Energy!
"Natural Gas" is just another byproduct of crude oil. It is methane, and could be collected from sewage and compost, but when you're being sold natural gas, you're getting the methane byproduct from the refining of crude oil. Nothing green about that.
Sarah Palin is just dumb. Everyone knows thati. No one should bother listening to her. "I'm uneducated and this is what I think..."
Palin continues to gain media attention for being one of the most ignorant opportunistic politicians of our time.