The Pied Piper of Planet Ithaca Has No Clothes Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Bob Howarth, Cornell Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology, acts as pied piper of Planet Ithaca when it comes to energy matters. How is that possible?] At
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … It is undeniable; adding more solar power to the grid means decreases the environmental performance of baseload energy systems and grow air pollution. A North State Journal article about power generation in North Carolina reveals the problem introduced by too much solar power being added to the grid. Solar
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … A Bob Howarth methane study has gotten some traction here and there amongst the uneducated empathetic press but key data falsifying it has been ignored. We have some really knowledgeable readers here at NaturalGasNOW and one of them, who apparently read our Bob Howarth post the other day, sent
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Bob Howarth, long forgotten by most, returns with yet another pseudo-science study attacking natural gas development based on totally bizarre methane claims. I participated in a debate with Bob Howarth at Cornell several years ago. His star was already starting to fade then and he later mostly dropped from
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Remember when Cornell’s Bob Howarth proclaimed natural gas was worse than coal due to methane emissions? Well, the latest data says those emissions are down. Methane emissions, about five years ago, became a trendy subject among those desperate to stop natural gas development. They had previously hung their hat
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