Replacing coal, oil with natural gas will not help fight global warming, expert argues
Several theories have been accumulated over time in which state that simply replacing coal, oil with natural gas could drastically decrease the consumption of the planet earth with global warming, but recently Dr. Robert Howarth has discovered some results that are contrary to the previous results. Dr. Robert Howarth has done some research of his own and discovered that methane (including shale gas and conventional gas) were by far more robust opposed to the coal oil. Meaning that simply making the transition from the coal oil to other natural gasses will not lessen the time period or effects of global warming. In fact Dr. Howarth basically states that the replacement of the gas will actually jump-start the reaction,and in fact quicken the process.
Though it would be highly more admirable by a greater majority of scientist, I must say that I agree with Dr. Howarth. For one thing, it is almost a delusion in the aspect that one would think that simply switching a gas to another type of gas could drastically reduce the speed of a reaction. The gas is still gas , no matter how an individual views a gas, at the end of the day it is still a gas ( meaning that it will contribute to the overall speed of the global warming process. Another thing is I as an individual would be hesitant to changing the types of gas in a system, and cutting out the one type of gas completely that the planet has been accustomed to for so long. The way I view it is just like a human's diet; if an individual grows up only eating solid foods, the diet cannot switch over to a sole liquid diet because it would damage the system ( just as it could damage the earth's natural system). I am not a scientist, but I would think that switching the substances released to the environment would put the system and shock, and result in an unstable climate , and terrible weather conditions. So not only is the new gas more potent than the previous, but it could also damage the system a a whole. So is it truly worth it to attempt to slow global warming?
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