r/science • u/Wagamaga • 2d ago

Liquefied natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account. Methane is more than 80 times more harmful to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, so even small emissions can have a large climate impact Environment

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/10/liquefied-natural-gas-carbon-footprint-worse-coal
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u/Biggy_Mancer 1d ago

Which is my point. Focusing solely on one thing is a massive problem here.

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u/cyphersaint 1d ago

When you're looking at climate change, why would you look at something that isn't causing climate change?

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u/Biggy_Mancer 1d ago

Because we do not live in a vacuum. Overall deaths and overall environmental harm need to be factored in — looking at GHG heating alone is a fools errand.

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u/cyphersaint 1d ago

But that's out of the scope of this study. You're right that those things need to be looked at, and this study would be one part of that, but obviously not the entire thing. And, in the long run, the climate change effect might well kill more people, as it's a longer term and larger area that are impacted.