US behind more than a third of global oil and gas expansion plans, report finds - The Guardian

[Caribbeans]

US behind more than a third of global oil and gas expansion plans, report finds - The Guardian

Study highlights conflict between Washington’s claims of climate leadership and its fossil fuel growth plans

The Guardian | Fiona Harvey | Tue 12 Sep 2023

The US accounts for more than a third of the expansion of global oil and gas production planned by mid-century, despite its claims of climate leadership, research has found.

Canada and Russia have the next biggest expansion plans, calculated based on how much carbon dioxide is likely to be produced from new developments, followed by Iran, China and Brazil. The United Arab Emirates, which is to host the annual UN climate summit this year, Cop28 in Dubai in November, is seventh on the list.

The data, in a report from the campaign group Oil Change International, also showed that five “global north countries” – the US, Canada, Australia, Norway and the UK – will be responsible for just over half of all the planned expansion from new oil and gas fields to 2050.

Greenhouse gas emissions from all of the oil and gas expansion that is planned in the next three decades would be more than enough to drive global temperatures well beyond the limit of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels that countries agreed in 2021 at Cop26 in Glasgow, the report found...more
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/12/us-behind-more-than-a-third-of-global-oil-and-gas-expansion-plans-report-finds

[walkingman]

1. We are our own worst enemy - Kissinger gives me the creeps.

[Brenda]

2. For sure. I can't believe that ghoul is still alive.

As for the OP. Americans, including Dems don't seem to mind that government officials, including Dems don't do the right thing, including honoring their campaign pledges.

[Think. Again.]

3. And people keep wondering why our nation's youth...

...are feeling so betrayed.

[Duppers]

5. Hope I live another 15+yrs

To see this situation turned completely around.

I hope.

[NNadir]

4. It's always cute when salespeople for fossil fuels, trying to rebrand them as...

..."hydrogen" pretend to object to them.

It's like a tobacco company pretending to care about lung cancer.

Hydrogen is a fossil fuel product, and "...protesting too much..." doesn't change that fact.

Facts matter:


A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

A little transparency goes a long way:



The caption:

Figure 1. Global current sources of H2 production (a), and H2 consumption sectors (b).

Progress on Catalyst Development for the Steam Reforming of Biomass and Waste Plastics Pyrolysis Volatiles: A Review Laura Santamaria, Gartzen Lopez, Enara Fernandez, Maria Cortazar, Aitor Arregi, Martin Olazar, and Javier Bilbao, Energy & Fuels 2021 35 (21), 17051-17084]

[Think. Again.]

6. You are lying...

H2 can be produced from fossil fuel materials or can be produced using no fossil fuel input at all.

It is not a 'fact' that hydrogen is strictly a fossil fuel product.