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“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects

by julosflb on 5/15/22, 6:18 PM with 76 comments

  • by nosianu on 5/15/22, 7:54 PM

    Here is a pretty good Guardian article about the study, where I found this a few days ago: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/...

    The study is linked at around the middle of the article.

    It has a few supporting articles at the bottom under "More on this story", for example one headlined "Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief"

  • by fny on 5/15/22, 9:24 PM

    I hate to say it, but if energy prices keep rising this perspective is going to be disposed of rapidly.

    High energy prices mean rampant inflation and social unrest. With crude and natural gas prices skyrocketing, developing nations will again turn to coal as an energy source. Developed nations will return (see Germany) to coal as a heating source.

    Green energy will be thrown to the wayside for the sake of social stability give the tumult we've observed to this point.

    For the short run, there is unfortunately no viable alternative without enduring 5-10 years of pain. Over the long run, I hope we get more nuclear reactors online.

  • by hettygreen on 5/16/22, 12:25 AM

  • by hedora on 5/15/22, 11:29 PM

    Is there a web accessible way to query projects by state / district? I'd like to reach out to local politicians about any local carbon bombs.

  • by qwertox on 5/16/22, 8:29 AM

    I was interested in knowing the reason for Saudi Arabia's high emissions and found a site [0] which has information which could explain it a bit. Some information, like the one from Saudi Arabia, is relatively outdated (2018), but informative nonetheless.

    [0] https://www.climate-transparency.org/countries/africa/saudi-...

  • by CodeWriter23 on 5/16/22, 1:00 AM

    Funny how all these studies completely ignore methane emissions from abandoned wells.

  • by paganel on 5/15/22, 9:05 PM

    Of course that the West would label everything as a "carbon bomb" right now, i.e. everything that doesn't fit its socio-political biases. Labelling nuclear power-plants the same would be met with derision, even though in our day and age the price of energy and the price of "stuff" is pretty well correlated, and seeing as nuclear power-plants are pretty damn expensive then it means that's lots and lots of energy that has been "incorporated" into them. But because there's no black smoke getting out of those nuclear power-plants then it means it's all "in our heads" or something. The same goes for most of the subsidised "green" energy.