I wanted to give this set of questions a little more than a "typical" Q&A reply. This is a link to the post I provided in attempting to answer these questions as briefly as I can, there is so much you can say on the pressure and changes Oil & gas companies WILL undergo, either as they recognize change is unrelenting or simply get truely forced into sysmic changes
https://energycentral.com/c/ec/keep-fossil-fuels-ground-now
Today, Monday 9th August saw the release of the 6th Climate assessment by the IPCC. It is grim, sobering reading.
Simply put, if we do not get Carbon Dioxide out of our energy mix as fast as we can we are, I quote:
- facing increases in the frequency and intensity of hot extremes, marine heatwaves, and heavy precipitation, agricultural and ecological droughts in some regions, and proportion of intense tropical cyclones, as well as reductions in Arctic sea ice, snow cover and permafrost"
- I go on in a quote "Continued global warming is projected to further intensify the global water cycle, including its variability, global monsoon precipitation and the severity of wet and dry events"
- "increasing CO2 emissions, the ocean and land carbon sinks are projected to be less effective at slowing the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere"
- Many changes due to past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible for centuries to millennia, especially changes in the ocean, ice sheets and global sea level.
Can we honestly support extracting fossil fuels and Oil and Gas companies need to "front up" to what they need to do to make massive, affective and fast changes while they have some of the control still in their hands.
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