Uncovering the Permian Climate Bomb

[@pedrofigueroa6977]

It Is about time to radically change the way we think! How many authorities have closed their eyes through the years about the environmental impact of this industry! I do not think they have been ignorant about It!!

[@davehendricks4824]

I drove from Amarillo to Lubbock years ago. Talk about a stench. The drive made me nauseous! I don’t know how anybody in Texas puts up with that crap.

[@singingway]

It is so shocking that these toxins have been invisible until you exposed them. Industries never have regulated themselves.

[@zAlaska]

Administration's come and rules and regulations go. We're either cleaning it up or we're all deregulation. I will use you as an example even though I don't know you. As you drive through Texas and you see the ugly flares viewing black smoke you get a bad feeling what's really going on. Evil Obama made them ignite the methane emissions that were invisible. And Trump came and a deregulated allowing them to vent without burning. Now we're back to lighting the venting which is a lot better than venting so why aren't they preserving the natural gas for use and their power generating equipment for example? Dumping the natural gas into the atmosphere since who knows when, next time they're going to say it's a gas shortage and there's nothing anybody could do about it. And there's a real hatred for wind and solar in Texas by the politicians. Too little too late and absolutely the opposite of what is necessary, we've passed the Tipping Point a long time ago. The unforgivable sin. Killing the Earth.

[@christianzilla]

It's not so much the toxic aspect, if any, of methane but rather the impact on global warming and climate change that is the problem. 86x the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide and it lasts for about a decade before oxygen breaks it down... 2022 saw a 'methane bloom' that 'had scientists baffled' and obviously added to the extreme temperatures seen that summer. It's no mystery if you take into account all the fracking and the fact the methane tipping point has been passed years ago and we are now seeing permafrost above and below the ocean releasing masses of stored methane.

[@zAlaska]

@@christianzilla the methane breaks down into carbon dioxide and after about 600 years the carbon dioxide is no longer reactive. That means if we quit releasing everything today the current Rising temperatures with still lots of ice masking the real temperature, the temperatures are going to go up even faster for hundreds of years, if we quit creating excessive Heat such as in nuclear reactors and stop omitting methane and carbon dioxide which isn't going to happen because the methane is no longer stable in the Arctic. The climate is a lot harder than it appears because there is still a lot of ice masking the actual temperature, like standing next to snow on a hot day which happens here in Alaska Every Spring.

[@TXsharon]

@@christianzilla The methane is a huge concern for climate change and the low-hanging fruit in the solution. And methane brings hitchhiker gasses with it up from the formation. Volatile organic compounds like benzene and cause cancer and many other horrible health impacts.

[@christianzilla]

@@TXsharon petrol is almost pure benzene.

[@elHippieSupremo]

The oil industry can survive, but extreme innovation is necessary. Greenhouse gas emissions have to stop.

[@TXsharon]

The IPCC and the International Energy Agency say that new oil and gas investment needed to stop at the end of 2021. Even if they can stop the methane, it creates CO2 when burned for energy. Full STOP!

[@5353Jumper]

To be clear we need to divide the petroleum industry into two categories. Fuels need to stop. Stop demand, stop burning them to stop production. Support any and all decent competitive market solutions. Petrochemicals and Petro Materials should continue. Many of them actually reduce our emissions, efficiency and health. These do not need reduction but there is definitely improvement. Better disposal/recycling of plastics as the biggest problems with plastics are after they have been used. More environmentally efficient production, stop the leaking between the well and the refinery, enforced wellsite reclamation, improvements in social justice consequences of the petroleum materials supply chain. So we are not ending all petroleum, just reducing it by eliminating the market for its most damaging product, and continued improvement of its other products.

[@christinearmington]

This time isn’t the Permian-Triassic extinction boundary. This time it’s the Permian-Texas extinction boundary. 💀🔥😳

[@MiguelEscoto-ic3sy]

Underrated comment. This is incredible haha. Let's reverse the Permian-Texas extinction!

[@edwardmiessner6502]

The 6th Mass and 2nd Permian Extinction!

[@paxwallace8324]

"We are under the gross misconception that we are a good species going somewhere important and that at the last minute we will correct our errors and god will smile on us. It is Delusion." Farley Mowat

[@DelusionalDoug]

Please cite your source that says natural gas is worse than coal. Thanks.

[@TXsharon]

@Stephanie Ellison So does drilling and fracking waste.

[@TXsharon]

Howarth, Ingraffea, Santoro, 2011 Methane and the greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations. The scientists were first attacked, then as more research was published their numbers were found to be conservative.

[@patrickmclaughlin6013]

Common bricks are radioactive.

[@TXsharon]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn63Y3iJjdGNZ5Y 11:45

[@embracedmadness]

It’s readily available if you care to look. It’s now been found that the amount of methane released into the atmosphere from fracking is worse than burning coal.

[@brentkn]

Look up CAMS Methane Forecast if you want to see how bad it really is.

[@BJAvegan]

Methane is a major climate gas including from animal agriculture. Let's stop harming animals and lower our carbon footprint while working to stop industrial methane. Thank you for the video.

[@cliff9136]

Methane is factually a minute factor in greenhouse gases.

[@kevinu.k.7042]

Great documentary - Thank you.

[@larrymccue8097]

Its all about the money even when we are down to a few years. We are unbelievably greedy and unaware of what's important.

[@marshaperez4158]

Great post!!!

[@phobosthemage260]

Wonderful journalism. Thank you for your care and attention.

[@vthilton]

Truth, Sharing, and Peace Forever.

[@mohamedjoudah9133]

Can you link the studies that you used for this video, thanks.

[@oliverrodriguez3250]

Excellent video

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

optical-gas camera! yes we are trying to reduce the damage... people have no idea just how bad the eco-doom is! I did a career in environmental activism! I saw "career" as a joke since it was mainly volunteer work. thanks

[@stanleykubrick8786]

Excellent video - Thank you!!

[@SageRosemaryTime]

Well Done. A valuable , informative mini documentary.

[@kurtniznik8116]

The fossil fuel industry won't be stopped until fossil fuels are no longer economically viable to extract. This will be much longer than anyone desiring a solution to climate change is hoping for. Net zero by 2050 is basically impossible. So, what to do?

[@rolandgo6744]

It will stop once it is too hot outside to extract any oil, not long from now.

[@TXsharon]

We no longer need oil and gas for energy. Look up Stanford professor Mark Jacobson

[@davehendricks4824]

💀!

[@hamish1309]

​@@rolandgo6744 that will never happen. That's why they changed the name to climate change, because it became obvious that anthropogenic global warming was a lie.

[@Argosh]

I think "going extinct" is the next step on our todo list. But at least it'll be highly profitable.

[@nobody687]

Methane after 10yrs decreases in its ability to absorb heat. From 80 times co2 to equal to co2. It doesn't go away. Wish it did

[@joesbanjointerests9281]

Are you aware that the ice cap on Greenland melted before autos, factories and etc.?

[@atomdent]

Please keep the pressure on, this is hero work!

[@justind650]

Can you share sources for natural gas CO2e being worse than coal? Why do you think this isn’t reflected in EPA’s fuel emissions coefficients, or is it just a matter of time?

[@TXsharon]

There are many sources including the IPCC. In the 5th assessment is where they calculated the global warming potential (GWP) of methane as 86 X worse than CO2 on a 20-year time-frame. One of the first studies is shown at 11:42 in the film. "Methane and the greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations" Howarth, Ingraffea, Santoro. The EPA uses a GWP of 100-years for methane. Since methane is only in the atmosphere for about 10 years before it breaks down, that downplays the impact on our climate. The EPA GWP is based more on politics than on science.

[@justind650]

@@TXsharon Thank you! I think the next 10-20 years may determine whether we set off a chain of feedbacks, if we haven't already. It's unfortunate because on the demand side many fuel source and energy efficiency decisions are made based on the EPA numbers.

[@TXsharon]

@@justind650 We don't have 20 years. And even the IPCC number of 86 x doesn't reflect the true impact of methane because it doesn't last in our atmosphere for 20 years. Many scientists are saying the real GWP of methane based on 10 years is 100+ x that of CO2. We need to half emissions by 2030 and we are rapidly headed in the wrong direction. The "free market" won't save us. We need government intervention.

[@cliff9136]

@@TXsharonthe IPCC is based more on politics than science.

[@TXsharon]

@@cliff9136 The overwhelming majority of scientists agree and we are supposed to believe some dude on the internet called Cliff over real scientists. Good luck man.

[@fannyandersson3330]

This is so important for all of us! Keep fighting ❤❤❤❤

[@BenHuttash]

I’m a huge fan of Sharon’s, she did so much work for us in Denton.

[@haroldlamble5163]

Why don't they use the methane for aluminum and steel production. I heard Houston is dirty as well.

[@anthonynicholson5523]

Haha...we thought we screwed up with the dust bowl lol...hahaha.....

[@boydguie8129]

Can you do a doc. On cyna. Oil ,coal, and gas industry.

[@reverands571]

Actually, Methane has a half-life of about 9 years---meaning that half the Methane turns into CO2, every 9 years. So, half is still there, after 9 years. Conventional oil peaked in the US, peaked in the early seventies. Fracking eventually made up for the lesser amount of Conventional Oil.

[@TXsharon]

Nope. After a decade, most emitted methane has reacted with ozone to form carbon dioxide and water. Or from NOAA every molecule of methane that goes into the atmosphere remains there for 8 years until it is removed by oxidization into carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). The facts in this video were vetted by Anthony Ingraffea, the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University. He used to work for Schlumberger//

[@ziegle9876]

This is incorrect. Just read the IPCC technical report.

[@michaeledwards2251]

@@TXsharon Both statements are incorrect. Hydroxyl ions density is the factor determining the rate of methane conversion to carbon dioxide. At low latitudes the light level is much lower resulting in a much lower conversion rate.

[@andrewoh1663]

LOL So, what's your alternative plan sunshine?

[@leftoverbacon]

More folks need to see this!

[@flotsamike]

At $150 a barrel equivalent for energy apparently we've only got 42 years worth of oil left. In that same time. Of course I remember seeing commercials in the seventies that were promoting conservation of energy that said we would be out of oil by the year 2000. Over the next 50 years, If pipelines are not maintained the cost of delivering natural gas will measured in mass casualty explosions per year. I don't think the climate or the planet gives a darn what we do, it will be here after us and we seem determined to do ourselves in. One upside is the tens of thousands of abandoned Wells provide fantastic opportunities for gravity storage of energy. The very first step of winning ourselves from fossil fuels is energy storage. It is not only necessary to handle intermittent supplies from so-called renewable resources but also makes all energy sources more efficient and more effective.

[@singingway]

This is an important video but "what can I do? Hold a sign in the streets" is NOT an answer. The corporatocracy has had over fifty years to figure out how to nullify citizen action and protests. You are doing great work, but "making sure the government does the right thing" as you have seen, is not working and will not work. The 350 climate March was over a MILLION PEOPLE, and almost nothing came of it. So numbers are not the answer. "More of what isn't working" isn't an effective strategy. Especially up against a billion dollar disinformation campaign using culture war issues to manipulate voters. What do I advocate? Using climate resilience preparation to get people working together to enable survival without fossil fuels, to prepare for collapse, to create a shadow government with a cabinet of experts in every field ready to provide communication collaboration and structure, to create microgrids which are illegal (many places) as primary energy, but legal as resilience, backup, emergency reserves... There is so much more ... Check out Julia Steinberg Living Well Within Limits project. Climate documentaries need to STOP showing protests as "the thing to do" since that is outmoded, no longer effective, and there are higher leverage tasks we could accomplish together.

[@TXsharon]

We need sustained pressure on Biden. Polling shows that over 70% of Americans are concerned about climate change. But they don't talk about it to friends and family. Talk about it. Get other people to write Biden. Go to White House Comments and give him an ear full. You are right! It won't be easy but we have to keep pressuring him.

[@lukegardner6917]

Have you ever watched any of Roger hallam's presentations where he breaks down how he developed the extinction rebellion tactics and explains what make a successful political action movement? Super interesting

[@OrianJamieson28]

I’m shocked af! How can we stop this asap!?

[@TXsharon]

Write Biden at White House Comments and tell him to declare a national climate emergency and to use the full extent of his executive powers to save the future.

[@granadakimj]

Join any climate movement, I don't care which one. And demand climate action from your goverment! The more that do this, the better it will work...

[@capnsean8365]

2 ideas: 1.vote for local, state and federal representatives that support climate protection 2. donate $ to causes like this one

[@TXsharon]

@@jeremyjackson7429 Thankfully doomerism is not science. The latest IPCC report says it's not too late. True that the climate has already changed but we need to fight for every degree and stopping methane from oil and gas is the low-hanging fruit.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

Ehm, wipe out humanity I suppose.

[@GEE-rr7xv]

Nice work, I learned some new info!

[@seanmason6707]

Reminds me of when we had lead in our gas ⛽️

[@ziegle9876]

Which was indeed completely harmless to people but very good for engines and especially low fuel consumption. New York taxi drivers had lower lead levels in their body than rural folks. And the lead was replaced with carcinogenic cyclic hydrocarbons. Is that better?

[@thezackseven]

Now combine this with the natural CO2 and methane emissions from the thawing permafrost.

[@anthonymorris5084]

Methane was released in far greater amounts when glaciers receded from the entire northern hemisphere. Humans without an ounce of technology survived just fine.

[@TXsharon]

@@anthonymorris5084 You are just making shit up. "According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, today's concentrations of methane in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in at least 800 000 years, and methane has contributed around 30% of observed global warming to date." International Energy Agency Global Methane Tracker

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@TXsharon There is nothing I've stated that is "made up". The IPCC is a billion dollar bureaucratic organization who's entire continued funding and sole existence is predicated on promoting a climate "crisis". This is an incredible example of a blatant conflict of interest. To give you perspective on how corrupt the UN is, simply search the United Nations Human Rights Council and check out the incredible human rights abusers that have been elected to this body. Right now, today, as it sends missiles into Ukrainian civilian areas, Russia holds the Presidency of the UN. A more sickening travesty I cannot find. 20,000 years ago (for millions of years) the entire northern hemisphere was covered in mile high ice. When this ice melted it revealed vastly greater areas of permafrost that released methane upon melting. Humans have been around for 200,000 years and survived with no technology. Science tells us that it only takes approximately 10 years to absorb methane from the atmosphere. You are citing alarmist rhetoric.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

We’re pumping c02 into the atmosphere ten times faster then the petm extinction event. At the edge of extinction, only love remains

[@A3Kr0n]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that Permian oil production will peak at 5.7 million barrels per day in 2023 and then decline gradually thereafter.

[@tombowen9861]

"Don't have the technology" to stop venting. Compressors have been around for a minute! It cost money, and there's no regulation, so they aren't doing it. If we can regulate refrigerant venting, why not methane?

[@TXsharon]

Compressors also have to vent. Methane is a volatile gas and equipment will explode so they have to release (vent) the pressure when equipment gets over pressured. They also release methane to the atmosphere when they need to work on equipment. It's called a blowdown and they blow all the methane out of the equipment.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Most oil wells are small, old, and virtually artisanal in nature. They use very simple shotgun separators and flotation tanks to separate oil from brine. They sort of have to be open to the atmosphere in order for them to work. It's not feasible to maintain them as hermetically sealed. These systems operate with no electricity and no active controls. Just tanks, floats, and valves.

[@felipearbustopotd]

Why not capture them and use them, shameful to just vent them.... Invisible to the naked eye but not the camera. Thank you for uploading and sharing.

[@jasonfirewalker3595]

Every day I learn a new horrific result of greed. Get rid of greed and you save the world.

[@anthonymorris5084]

What you call "greed". I call drive and ambition. The active striving to improve human flourishing is not "greedy".

[@lauraarcher1730]

@@anthonymorris5084 but your definition of greed isn’t correct. So, yes. Greed is a major problem.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@lauraarcher1730 I never gave a definition of the term "greed". People call anybody who has more than they have "greedy". The term is a mindless slander directed at anybody who is successful. Creating economic growth is not greedy. Impacting the environment to generate quality of life and human flourishing is not greedy.

[@anthonynicholson5523]

The government could stop all of this but never be able to stop the massive amounts of methane being released naturally from the tundra thawing in Alaska Canada Siberia Greenland etc....we are way behind and incapable of dealing with those massive issues that make these seem tiny

[@TXsharon]

Stopping methane from oil and gas would have an affect on the rapid acceleration of warming. That would slow the tundra thawing.

[@michaeledwards2251]

@@TXsharon I'd love for your belief to be true but the albedo feed backs in the polar regions, the sea ice has been irreversibly doomed since the 1960 s, if not earlier, resulting in the arctic areas warming 4 to 7 faster than the rest of the planet. Loss of aerosols alone, with radiation balance, commit the planet to 2.5 C, if all fossil fuel emissions stopped immediately. Read the Richard Hansen Paper, " Global Warming in the Pipeline", he expects a commitment to 10 C of warming. There will be alligators in the arctic.

[@petestransit]

OH Sure the Grubberment is doing something about this issue ... Making the ching$ ching$ .... this extensive transfer of your tax payers cash to your local corupt criminal government representitive, is difficult to administer and requires all available resources to deal with this issue.

[@harryrussell154]

Climate crisis solutions including an open sourced, gravity driven, continuous motion, free energy generator called the Power Multiplier Device. The Grow-Live Tower, which is a cylindrical structure with a central support column, periphery support columns, and suspension cables connecting the two to support the floor levels. This tower provides the food for the people that live in the lower 20 levels by growing it in the upper 60 levels. These Tower/generators, if embraced by the world, would end world hunger, homelessness, cut global disease by 85% due to improved living conditions, increase water conservation by 10,000%, end the poisoning of the world's water by petroleum and mono culture's 'one crop' farming, end the world money system by providing all the essentials for life for free. Restoring Arctic Ice. The water temperature at the bottom of the sea is colder than at the top, so simply pump up the cold water at the edge of the ice flow to slow the warming/melting process. This can be done by hanging 30' diameter tubes, by floatation vertically from the surface to close to the bottom. A pump at the top would need to just pump out 4' of water before the capillary effect would automatically begin bringing up the colder water to the surface. If 10,000 of these were placed close to the ice edge it would effectively lower the temperature of the water that is contacting the ice flow, slowing the melt during summer, increasing the ice build up in winter, and lowering the mean temperature of the region. Possible slowing the Greenland ice as well. The important thing to remember is that this global monetary system is an invention. As the numbers are invented to cause the world economy to crash. New numbers can also be invented to establish a prosperous one. A "World Zero" day can be instituted whereby all world debts are erased, all lenders are completely repaid by invented "new money", which is just as valid as the 'old money' now in their pockets. All rented homes are given to the dwellers and the new money payments are made to the landlords equal to ten years of payments, then nothing more. All auto payments end, the owners receive the titles, and the dealers are paid with new money. New money pays the people $8,000 every month in their accounts, and all of their health care needs with that industry receiving total payment for their services with new money, all student loan debts vanish. When the global monetarists attempt to 'crash' the new money system, the recorded history of the financial dealings is simply rewound back to before the crashing occurred, then restarted again. Crashes are only crashes on paper, not reality. This system can give freedom or slavery. It gives slavery because it is Satan's system and plays into prophecy. The Power Multiplier Device: Open sourced, gravity driven, continuous motion, free energy generator: Power Multiplier Device, last resize (I hope)-overunity.com Functions as follows: Small motor draws energy from the battery to turn a large bicycle-type wheel clockwise, turning the drive sprocket clockwise also because both share the same axle. This has the drive sprocket climb the chain, taking the whole assembly with its 2,000 pounds of weights. Three things now happen: 1) The motor takes the assembly to the top of the chain with its 400 pound pull, taking 1 hour to do so, requiring the energy amount from the battery. Energy Expended going up. EE/up= 1 hour pull of 400 pounds from the battery. 2) As the assembly is climbing the chain, it's heavy weight (2,000 lbs.) is still hanging/pulling on the chain, pulling the chain down which turns the transmission/generator, producing a full charge of energy going back into the battery. Energy generated going up, EG/Up = 1 hour of a 2,000 pound pull by the heavy mechanism. 3) When the assembly reaches the top the small motor shuts off and the assembly's weight slowly begins to descend, pulling the chain down with it. Since it climbed the chain faster than it pulled the chain down, its descent will take longer than 1 hour for its energy generated down charge into the battery. EG/Down = 1+ hour of a 2,000 pound pull charging into the battery. EE/Up 1 hour of a 400 pound pull < EG/UP (1 hour of a 2,000 pound pull charge into the battery) + EG/Down (1+ hours of the 2,000 pound pull charge into the battery) = FE, EE/UP < (EG/UP + EG/Down) = FE. With a heavier weight: 1) The motor takes the assembly to the top of the chain, taking 3 minutes to do so, requiring the energy amount from the battery that is represented by the expression 1N. Energy expended going up. EE/up=1N. 2) As the assembly is climbing the chain, it's heavy weight is still hanging/pulling on the chain, pulling the chain down which turns the transmission/generator, producing a full charge of energy going back into the battery. Energy generated going up, EG/up=.4N. 3) When the assembly reaches the top, the small motor shuts off and the assembly's weight slowly begins to descend, pulling the chain down with it. This descent takes 10 times longer than the ascent due to the heavy weight of the assembly, and the low gearing of the transmission, it 'creeps' down. In 3 minutes going up, .4N was charged back into the battery. In 6 minutes going down .8N will be charged into the battery, replacing all of the energy the small motor expended. The remaining 24 minutes of the descent will charge 3.2N into the battery, Energy generated going down, EG/down=3.2N energy not needed for the mechanism's operation, free energy. EE/up < (EG/up + EG/down) = FE, or, 1N < (.4N + 4N) = 3.4N FE Connecting another PMD having more weight to the lower sprocket of the first will produce more energy. The chain goes around the lower sprocket of the first one, and up around the bicycle type of the second, so the lower sprocket of the first one is acting like the small motor does to turn the first one’s bicycle type wheel. A swing arm is place between the two wheels to play out more chain as the second PMD’s bicycle type wheel ascends. Then a third PMD connected to the second…. This will decentralize the grid using home generation modules, end fossil fuel energy plants, end nuclear, solar, wind, ocean energy generation plants. It will also allow for cars that recharge themselves as they travel down the road with modified PMDs.

[@cameronmclennan942]

Great video

[@protasiocanalita6436]

The oil barons has allowed the oil and diesel to be hit by inflation. We cannot afford them anymore so why not shift to the research and development of methane and how to extract it and control it for personal use if small communities for use in cooking, power ,etc let use make use of these things, it is there for us to use.

[@S-6-6-6]

Why don't we use methane gas and just collect the by product? Mabye i'm dumb for asking the question but seriously why waste that shit.

[@TXsharon]

Several reasons: 1) Oil is worth a lot more so that's their target. Capturing the gas is often too much trouble so they burn it in a flare or just dump it in our atmosphere. 2) It's volatile gases that will find the pathway of least resistance. 3) They have to release it when the pressure builds up or it will "rupture equipment." 4) So many equipment failures and emergencies, etc.

[@GroovyVideo2]

Every well I have inspected is venting methane - Every one

[@PacoOtis]

This so simple!! Greed does this, and always has. When you talk to the oil/gas folks you are talking to greed! Remember this!

[@anthonymorris5084]

Why is creating the modern world characterized as being greedy? Any form of success is incessantly slandered as greedy. It's myopic.

[@TXsharon]

@@anthonymorris5084 It's no longer about creating the modern world. It's purely about a few powerful CEOs making money by plundering our natural resources and risking the future.

[@lloydgilham6153]

If this is true, why has the US lowered CO2 the most since Paris Climate Accord was signed.

[@ziggyfrnds]

Yup we say we've reduced emissions......but who's actually checking? It's just accounting and calculations, making them up is easy. Only a few people like these are actually checking on the ground. In my country of Australia there was a report that the govt is under-reporting CO2 by as much as 30%.........big whoop.....nobody cared.

[@joaquimbarbosa896]

The US had giant emissions, and also really high per capita emissions, so there is quite an easy task to lower emissions. Also the US increased its emissions in 2022

[@TXsharon]

This film is about methane which is more than 80 x more efficient at trapping heat than CO2. NOAA measures methane in our atmosphere and it is spiking up higher and higher every year.

[@cliff9136]

It’s like water vapour doesn’t exist in your alarmist minds.

[@joaquimbarbosa896]

@@cliff9136 It does, while it is both strongger and more commun, it doesn't take long for water vapour to form clouds wich mostly have cooling effect during the day, while these clouds are also mostly short lived and doesn't take long to fall as rain Water vapour is not capable of changing the climate itself, it just follows temperature changes and increases them

[@jameswaters3939]

Texans for toxins? But, we are over a barrel and it continues it's advance. I guess I'd like to see these releases compared to natural emissions from volcanic activity and solar variations as contributors to the data to put it into relative perspective. We like cars and need them and will continue to use them. One analyst suggests that society en toto is akin to a heat engine. The engineers are. it seems, regularly posed with gargantuan problems that casting aspersions on is natural but sometimes taken with a grain of salt. We'z all involved in consumption and ecology.

[@derekmoore2779]

Natural gas is the best. Use of energy

[@debbiesroommate]

"We need to protect China from Texas" 😂

[@patrickmclaughlin6013]

Oil is all natural, so is methane. Even if it's not pumped out, it's still there. So is the methane, and leaks from the ground naturally.

[@TXsharon]

It's only natural when it's in the ground. Poking millions of holes is allowing it to escape at a level that threatens human existance.

[@5353Jumper]

Right...There is natural atmospheric carbon and surface oil. PLUS the massive amount we drill for and artificially release offending the natural balance. See the natural bit is not the problem. The human cause bit massively exceeding the natural bit is the problem.

[@embracedmadness]

Better to keep it in the ground

[@A3Kr0n]

You don't have to worry about this, you have much, much bigger things to worry about. Things like the Permian Basin in decline and pretty much everything we know. Enjoy your indoor plumbing, comfortable homes, well maintained roads, easy access to gasoline, full shelves in the supermarket. If you're under 60 years old your life is fucked.

[@michaeledwards2251]

My family all lived into their nineties, short of a major medical screw up. In other words I have at least 30+ years of fossil fuel depletion to look forward to.

[@dannywalters2365]

Oil and gas production is way more dangerous than coal.

[@trstquint7114]

show is over.

[@TXsharon]

No, we still have time, but we are currently headed in the wrong direction.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

Yup! Was probably over before the population bomb. Just waiting for an ice free arctic now

[@lluisboschpascual4869]

"Studies demonstrate that in the future..." Beg your pardon? How the hell can any scientific study demonstrate something that has not yet happened? Scientific proof is, by definition, something that already is and/or has been. Predicting the future is guesswork, not science 🤷‍♂️

[@TXsharon]

You might benefit from understanding hypotheses and predictions in scientific study.

[@lluisboschpascual4869]

@@TXsharon i know what a hypothesis and a prediction are. They are both short of a theory, and neither of them "demonstrate" anything, they are just opinions

[@anthonymorris5084]

The incessant climate mantra: "Just you wait, it's going to get bad, you'll see". Repeat decade after decade in perpetuity. Climate zealots embrace wild hyperbolic predictions of future events that never materialize instead of examining the data from actual events that have transpired, demonstrating that we are safe.

[@danielwatson4864]

At the "grassroots level" some of the best methods for improving the environment would be o recycle more, pick up litter, don't litter, and dispose harmful chemicals the proper way.

[@TXsharon]

All of those are good along with conserve energy. But individuals cannot make enough difference while Biden continues to approve projects like Willow and auctioning off Italy sized chunks of the Gulf for drilling. We need to rise up and pressure him to be the climate president he promised to be.

[@douglasjacobs882]

When you follow the greenwashing, it looks good on paper to get oil from a foreign country rather than from the Willow project. The Willow project will replace oil shipped from foreign countries with little to no regulations, often not even attempting to clean up spills and no limits whatsoever for methane leaks. California currently gets over 60% of the oil it uses from foreign countries. The ships carrying the oil to California create more pollution than the entire California transportation industry. None of that pollution gets counted against California or the US, it gets credited to the foreign countries which have no emmisions goals. In an attempt to reduce us emmisions, an attempt to shut down the Willow project would result in greater global emmisions.

[@mravatar9616]

I agree that venting fumes is wastefull and could be captured, but this topic deserves deeper critical thought. Economics is a major factor, as cars can be made to get 300 to 1,000 miles per gallon, emissions are reduced to safer levels consequently, problem solved. Scholars of CO2 say we are experiencing a CO2 drought as plants and trees need it to thrive and produce more oxygen. Despite the ignorant majority, water is a viable fuel. Most climate activist are ignorant of the fact that british petroleum started this narrative, the important question is why. That answer goes back to economics, the wef, and the agenda 2030. Most climate activist are also ignorant of weather modification technology, including the affect of microwaves on the environment. Also absent from climate activist is the truth about chemtrails and the billions of chemicals dropped into the sky. Better critical thinking skills into economics, true unhindered capitalism and innovative engine and fuel upgrades and options is the answer. Corruption in politics and money is the problem. Good luck to all.

[@douglasjacobs882]

Can you expound on the critical thinking you have done in capturing the wasted gas? They mentioned it in the video but didn't give a clue on how it could be done.

[@mravatar9616]

@@douglasjacobs882 Yes I can, capture, compression, and cryogenics sums it up. Added sealants and coatings on tanks and pipes can prevent off-gassing, followed by cryogenics and compression for transportation. The topic then returns to economic, feasibility and subsidies. Innovation and unhindered capitalism is the problem and solution. Improve and maximize engine efficiency is the solution, methods exist yet are suppressed. Water contains hydrogen, fossil fuels are hydrocarbons, get the hydrogen from water, oxygen is the byproduct, problem solved. Yet, self sufficiency for the individual becomes real, and profits deminish for the corporations. Then we come back to critical thinking around economics and unhindered capitalism. Which leads to deeper topics about govt, the constitution, evolution and the meaning of life. Hence the need for critical thinking, which remains, for the most part, absent from misinformed climate enthusiast.

[@mravatar9616]

@@douglasjacobs882 kzbin.info/www/bejne/enKuZ2psf7esipo

[@mravatar9616]

Here is an example of a critical thinker on the topic.

[@qwikpuller4630]

We live in a never-ending cycle of nature. Nature gave us all the resources of the earth to use for our short stay here. It's becoming apparent that nature has wiped out numerous civilizations before. We, mankind, can neither create nor destroy nature. The cycle of the earth and the cosmos will wipe us clean in due time. But until it does, can't we please live in peace without all of your nagging? I think you should ask yourself who's really profiting from all your whining.

[@erth2man]

If you feel the fossil fuel industry is so destructive the fix is entirely up to you. All you need to do is stop using any and all products created with the use of, made out of, or transported by using any fossil fuels. Also don't use concrete or asphalt paved roads.

[@jimthain8777]

Just a reminder that the number 1 way to stop all this is to not buy gasoline. Gasoline is where the industry makes MOST of their money. Not that they don't make money out of other things, but when you consider that homes are heated by methane, and instead of capturing it and selling it, they just blow it out, it's not a real moneymaker for them. The gasoline will bring them many more times money than this "waste" product. Consider this, If plastic was the biggest money maker for fossil fuels, you would be banned from burning any fossil fuels. As someone else mentioned it is ALL about the money, period. Now that you know, where their weakness is it's up to you to decide what you'll do with that information.

[@michaeledwards2251]

The simplest way would be to select economical vehicles. All attempts at major petrol engine efficiency gains have been suppressed. Opposed piston engine designs, featured on Auto line, and methods of eliminating piston slap, the number cause of engine wear and heat, have all been reduced to trivial side lines. An attempt in the 1960 s to halve petrol consumption in urban areas by Lotus and Peugeot by kinetic energy recovery, to use the energy lost by the stop start nature of urban travel, was sabotaged by the UK government, who gave all the patent rights to Toyota. The motive ? The treasury claimed they were concerned about a possible reduction in tax revenue.

[@embracedmadness]

And Trump claims windmill towers are ugly and a blight on the landscape…

[@fsaldan1]

Good to know that coal is less harmful to the environment than natural gas. Time to buy stocks of coal miners.

[@joesbanjointerests9281]

Lol, rivers, and now bombs. What about the northern lake that emits more methane than all of us. Shouldn't you do something about that?

[@robertfonovic3551]

i heard a rumour tha t thdoco is to be renamed The Shit Sniffers

[@destrakkejakke]

driving around in your car to criticize oil industry : L

[@RinkyRoo2021]

Theres no hope .....people need fuel to get to work etc.....its suburbia itself thats the problem

[@seanreid349]

Like to see what is going on in Russia with all their drilling

[@janklaas6885]

11:45

[@juliejeavons6949]

I’m surprised she says they don’t have the technology to control the release of methane. I work in the water industry in the U.K. where we capture methane released from sludge digestion and feed it to CHP engines or clean it to add to the grid, using gas bags to balance the pressure. I guess it’s not so profitable for the frackers to do this, so it’s more a case of not having the will to do it rather than lacking the technology.

[@boxicool]

This is not the whole story, but only a part of it. I'll help you here... SAVE OCEANS!!! Its more important than even trees!!!

[@anthonynicholson5523]

I've known about this for years. In fact Bitcoin is trying to tap into it for fuel for the industry

[@iCyWEdontCi2i]

What about NUCLEAR ? Why is their waste so quiet.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

because the uranium miners have not survived.

[@iCyWEdontCi2i]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885, please explain...

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@iCyWEdontCi2i uranium miners die from cancer and so can't talk about how the nuclear waste also causes cancer: hence the waste is quiet.

[@iCyWEdontCi2i]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885, isn't uranium used to make nucIear ?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@iCyWEdontCi2i yes

[@richardford9321]

They pull out of the stops on this bullshit trope. The poor migrant and all that awful carbon.

[@tristanthiessen2814]

I❤️OIL And GAS!!! Keep up the drilling! The earth was made for man not man for the earth!🌎

[@davehendricks4824]

POS!

[@christianzilla]

Ignoramus

[@capnsean8365]

Said by not a man. A real man is a person willing to stand by difficult decisions. A real man is a protector of those he loves. A real man cares about his legacy, the future of his children. You sound like a boy, a short-sighted kid, only caring for himself.

[@nobodythatyouknow241]

😂

[@Jc-ms5vv]

Haha better not be crying when there’s no food on the shelves

[@ManuelGarcia-ww7gj]

For all you greens out there you need to go to the library and find out how many days a year the temperature gets higherbthan 90F (32C). Much to your dismay you will discover that there are fewer days that reach 32C or higher. In other words, the climate is cooling off, not warming up. The climate during the 1930s was hot compared to what we live with today.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

😂😂😂

[@NorthernStruggler]

This is clearly propaganda.

[@bobdobbs4086]

Nothing to see here, just move along folks ...

[@TXsharon]

For sure. Don't believe your lying eyes, folks.

[@bikesgoodgasbad]

How could they so cruelly slander the venerable oil industry

[@singingway]

Cuz billionaires are so trustworthy

[@davehendricks4824]

In your mind!

[@RudyJHaluza]

Thank nature for giving humans a source or relatively clean carbon energy. Maybe some day fusion could replace it.

[@TXsharon]

Methane is a dirty fossil fuel not clean energy.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@TXsharon There is no such thing as "clean" energy. It's blatant language manipulation designed to support a bias.

[@ivanhunter3907]

If it wasn’t for the oil industry and it’s associated economic benefits you wouldn’t be driving around TX nor would you have bothered leaving Mexico.. yer thermal camera would be adorable. Ye have just jumped onto the band wagon.. can you explain how co2 has 15x higher in the past and the earth was much warmer but life was proliferating everywhere.. Yer all out of control.. You know that co2 only exhibits a diminishing return with no real increase in heat retained when we go a pice 600ppm. You seem to want the the US to revert to a third world country.. Look man, less people die now for natural disasters than did 100yards ago.. Storms are less frequent Life expectancy is up Human technology is expanding exponentially And you want to put the brakes on.. We need to reach for the starts and anything less is a failure.. and we can stop hydro carbon production.. Yes it needs to be cleaned up and general dumping into the atmosphere is bad new.. motivation and moderation is the key.. Sea levels rise is constant at 2.88mm per yer for at least the last 1000 years.. Perhaps you should try and regulate china or Russia lol

[@jedadruled984]

Dude, you are driving a car. Whats wrong with you ?

[@TXsharon]

Is this your argument: Since you drive a car, you shouldn't highlight harm from oil and gas? Following that logic, if your zipper breaks on your new pants and you complain about it, you must stop wearing pants. If your steak is overcooked, stop eating steak? :/

[@jedadruled984]

@@TXsharon He is the cause of the climate catastropy. He is a bad person. Why isn't he biking ?

[@lancethrustworthy]

This video needs further 'polishing'. It's rough. Needs work. At times the music is TOO LOUD and obscures what is being said. Keep polishing. Remove ALL religious references. We don't need superstition here!

[@TXsharon]

Religious references?

[@ericl2152]

Godless communists are the biggest polluters and emitters of CO2 the world has ever seen. Add more religious references, we can use all the help we can get.

[@Leningrad_Underground]

I'm no climate change denier. However, From YOUR home page ("This includes methane, which is the second-largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide"). However from WIKIPEDIA ("Water vapor accounts for the LARGEST percentage of the greenhouse effect, between 36% and 66% for clear sky conditions and between 66% and 85% when including clouds"). Am I being pedantic? or just a smarty pants?

[@TXsharon]

Well, if you want to get more pedantic, black carbon is a huge contributor to climate change. I don't have control of what is on the Earthworks website, but it's largely considered the 2nd largest contributor. Burning methane creates water vapor plus the uncombusted methane that is released breaks down into water vapor and CO2. So that's a lot of water vapor from methane. Read about water vapor on NOAA's website. But, beware: NOAA uses a 100 year time frame for methane, which is kind of silly since it's breaks down after about 9 or 10 years.

[@cliff9136]

The alarmists love to completely overlook water vapour, it makes their AGW science seemingly junk, which it largely is.

[@bohdanburban5069]

The field worker wearing a mask at the 58 sec. mark signals a profound ignorance of scientific method.

[@viablerenewable1638]

If you wish to transfer from fossil fuels to reliable renewable Green Energy that is economically viable one can't depend on technology alone. One needs to expand ones vision to enabling desert land to flow with Milk and Honey to subsidize the energy hungry manufacturing and installation of renewable Green Energy. Since Free energy isn't stable, or reliable 24/7, one needs to also capture its capable to use when it's not available, and to be able to create additional wealth. I'm implying enabling transferring low value desert land to prestigious Real Estate by using Fuel Cells to take hydrogen isolated from seawater to both power the transportation industry as well as the power grid.

[@shenmisheshou7002]

It is too late to stop global warming. Fossil fuels currently supply 80% of the world's energy. The current population simply can't exist without fossil fuels. Had we started building new nuclear power plants 20 years ago, we might have had a chance, but it is too late. We can slow it a tiny bit, but those efforts will be futile.

[@cliff9136]

Had we never existed, the planet would have done as it is now.

[@anthonymorris5084]

How many different species live in Greenland and/or Antarctica compared to how many species live in the tropics? A barren desert has more plant and animal life than Antarctica. The greatest diversity of life lives in the tropics not on desolate wastelands of ice. Life flourishes under warming, there is no climate crisis.

[@TXsharon]

In recent summers it has reached 118° in west Texas and warnings "travel prepared for survival" are issued. That's way outside normal. Come on out there in August and let's see how you "flourish."

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@TXsharon This is illogical. Winters in Winnipeg Manitoba get as cold as minus 50 degrees. How is this any better? The cold is more dangerous and kills more people. It is vastly more costly on an economic scale as well. The globe is covered with a myriad of different kinds of climate and ecosystems. There isn't a definitive or perfect climate anywhere.

[@TXsharon]

@@anthonymorris5084 The great thing about science is it doesn't care about your opinions and I don't either. Climate chaos is real.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@TXsharon I haven't expressed any "opinions", as much as you folks love to invalidate and ridicule everybody who disagrees with you. "Climate chaos" is not a scientific term. It's not quantifiable. The data, the facts, the science, the evidence backs up everything I stated in each post. Look it up. You simply hate any "science" that doesn't back your alarmist narrative. What "science", what data are you using to make the claim of "climate chaos"? Do you think climate history began the day you were born? You seem to think West Texas is the center of the universe and the only place on Earth that should bask in a perfect climate. Throughout history there has been enormous evidence that life flourishes under warming. It's the cold that kills and the climate has changed dramatically across the globe since the beginning of time.

[@5353Jumper]

Oh life will still exist sure maybe in massive abundance. Just humans won't, as we will be near extinct. Species come and go as the climate changes. This may be our turn nature may deem is "too stupid to live" and change the climate to something not favorable to mammals like us again. That is the direction we are headed. So if you are that at peace with the scale of the universe that you think it is OK there is only a couple more generations of humanity left, you do you I guess. Most of us would rather we live for a few more generations without mass extinction and all the horrors that will bring.

[@Taocat1]

Optical gas imaging camera? No such thing. She's using a FlIR camera which detects heat. You are so misguided. And you are passing BS off to others as truth.

[@TXsharon]

"FLIR GF 320 detects hydrocarbon and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from natural gas production and use. With this optical gas imaging camera, inspectors can check thousands of components and see potential gas leaks in real-time." From the FLIR website. It also detects heat. With the telephoto lens I use it costs $100k, so significantly more than a simple thermal camera. It was developed with the help of industry for the purpose of detecting their emissions. The industry uses the same OGI instrument I use and their operators have the same certification I have. The industry did not develop this technology, spend millions buying it and training personnel just to tell them their equipment is hot. Get rea.

[@hmhmhmpandaaa8575]

Y'all know how much fossil fuels you used to make this movie ?? Do you care ?? C'mon now 😁

[@TXsharon]

Your argument seems to be that because we are forced by a manufacturing squeeze to use some fossil fuels, we shouldn't advocate for better practices and new technologies. This is a logic fail.

[@douglasjacobs882]

What better practices and technologies are you proposing?

[@noelburke6224]

She is talking rubbish about rapid global warming

[@pascalw.paradis8954]

No "After Fracking" ,, last on the oil straw. Get ready. NO PLAN B . ENERGY prices will rocket. ❤️🌎❤️