US LNG Has High Emissions & Study Showing This Attacked
Only Howarth is attempting to answer the question of end-to-end emissions for LNG and is being attacked by strange bedfellows for it
For the past year, a preprint paper has been undergoing one of the most public, rancorous and extensive peer-review processes in the history of US academics. Is it on race relations? Tax cuts for the rich? Hollywood starlets? No, it’s on liquified natural gas (LNG) emissions of greenhouse gases.
The paper is The greenhouse gas footprint of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exported from the United States by Robert Howarth, in the open access journal Energy Science & Engineering, 2023 impact factor 3.5. It’s a completely credible journal, and you wouldn’t think that this would be a particularly contentious subject, but this is the United Petrostates we’re talking about.
The United States is now the biggest exporter of crude oil and natural gas in the world, and currently the fourth largest exporter of coal. Natural gas export has risen from 0.3 billion cubic feet per day to 20.9 billion cubic feet, about half of it LNG…
