{"id":1842,"date":"2020-04-09T04:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2020-04-09T04:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:59:04","slug":"its-a-gas-gas-gas-tim-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Gas, Gas, Gas. Tim Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/its-a-gas-gas-gas\/news-story\/7dc124f111f8e5d832353f8db2b70477\">https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/its-a-gas-gas-gas\/news-story\/7dc124f111f8e5d832353f8db2b70477<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"tg-tlc-storybody_intro\">\n<p>What do you imagine might be the environmental outcome if the rapacious, resource-devouring US were to rapidly add the equivalent of Australia to its already-massive population?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Probably nothing good, if you\u2019re looking at things from an enviro-green perspective. After all, more people means more construction, more consumption and more carbon dioxide output.<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine that this population increase is accompanied by an extraordinary boom in fossil fuel extraction.<\/p>\n<p>Again, no green-minded person could possibly see anything positive here. Fossil fuels are Satan\u2019s heroin, addicting and enslaving billions who through their fossil fuel use become complicit in the earth\u2019s destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Include another component. Let\u2019s say these Americans are buying great big fuel-devouring trucks every 47 seconds over a period of ten years.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just one type of truck, Ford\u2019s mighty F-series, among the 17 million or so new cars and trucks sold annually in the US. By comparison, Australians last year bought 1,062,867 new vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Well, all of these things happened.<\/p>\n<p>From 2007 to 2017, the US population grew from 301.2 million to 325.7 million. That\u2019s a boost of 24.5 million, which is just about equal to Australia\u2019s population. They\u2019ve matched in one decade our entire 232-year people project.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Texas has led a remarkable boom in US oil and gas extraction. And Americans bought 7,393,479 of those stonking Ford trucks, along with everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t be good for the environment, right? Wrong. \u201cFrom 2007 to 2017,\u201d University of Texas energy resources professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/articles\/oil-frack-texas-lead-low-carbon-future-get-rich\/\">Michael E. Webber<\/a> reports, \u201cthe United States reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 14 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How can this be so? By conventional enviro-green thinking, this simply should not add up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/its-a-gas-gas-gas\/news-story\/7dc124f111f8e5d832353f8db2b70477 What do you imagine might be the environmental outcome if the rapacious, resource-devouring US were to rapidly add the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[217,700,1045,518,474,150,894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}