Fracking: One Of The Main Causes Of Global Warming

Oil and natural gas companies have developed a way to drill for natural gas, a process called hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. Natural gas is a flammable gas mixture consisting of methane and several other hydrocarbons that occur naturally underground. Natural gas is used as fuel for heating, cooking, and even in some automobiles like the “RideOn” buses. This technique has only recently become economically feasible with the rising prices of fossil fuels, and there is much potential for recovering natural gas through fracking. However, fracking has many waste products and unusual side effects caused by the unnatural forces and materials used. Fracking has a detrimental effect on the surrounding environment through

Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing, a type of drilling used by oil companies to tap the valuable oil veins located miles below the earth’s surface. Fracking has been the subject of discussion for some time now, not necessarily for its effectiveness, but for its effect on the environment. Fracking has been known to release methane gas into the atmosphere; methane gas is a greenhouse gas and along with gasses like CO2 is one of the gasses that contributes to the warming of the planet. In Louis W. Allstadt’s article “Fracking Contributes to Global Warming” he states that, “methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas in the short term-less

energy sector has been fracking; this drilling technique has allowed the United States to become the world’s largest oil and gas producers. However, environmentalist, environmental advocates, and citizen groups maintain that fracking poisons drinking water, causes cancer, and causes irreparable environmental damage. Environmental advocates use the word fracking like an expletive to generate opposition and revulsion “to what they say is a nasty process.” Even the cult sci-fi television series “Battlestar Galactica” used the industry word as a filler for a much harsher “F-word,” even though it had “nothing to do with oil and gas.”

Fracking, does it have more consequence or benefits? Well first let me explain what fracking is. Fracking is formally known as (Hydraulic Fracturing), an exceedingly confrontational procedure commonly used today to extort oil and natural gas from the earth. Many exponents of fracking congratulate the encouraging economic impacts and job creations. But they fail to recognize the effects fracking have on the climate and societies across America.

Gasland is a documentary film by Josh Fox. It all began when a natural gas company wishing to buy his land for use of drilling approached him on him, in Milanville, Pennsylvania. He was told that his home was sitting on a natural gas field called the Marcellus Shale. The company claimed the Marcellus Shale was “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas” (Gasland). All of that led Josh to want to find out more about what exactly natural gas drilling meant for everyone around the country. This led him to the 2005 Energy Bill, which was pushed through by Dick Cheney, exempted the oil and natural gas industry from the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, and many other environmental laws. The information is interesting because Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, the father of natural gas drilling. All of this information led Josh to the western America to see first hand the affects natural gas drilling that has been active in that area for at least a decade. Natural gas is extracted through a process called hydraulic fracturing, which drills a well and then pumps a mixture of water and fracking fluid. This fracking fluid contains over 595 different chemicals that have been uncovered with no help from the hydraulic fracturing industry. These dangerous chemicals can lead to many health problems experienced by many residents whose house fall around the same area as many fracking sites. One of the people he talked to was Lisa Braken, who grew up in the area of Divide Creek

As depicted in the popular documentary Gasland, created by the New Yorker and Pennsylvanian Josh Fox, many negative effects come from fracking. He finds a personal connection to these issues since his family owns property in Pennsylvania that an oil and gas company wanted to drill on. This is what began his mission to find the truth about fracking. One of the most talked about and advertized scenes was when he lit water on fire, multiple times. This caused all sorts of uproar across the nation as people who had wells drilled on their properties became paranoid that this would also happen to them. He also found many people along his journey that suffered from neurological issues, headaches, dizziness, peripheral neuropathy, swelling, and a loss of the senses of smell and/or taste, all of which they contributed to fracking. Fox points out that sometimes, toxic water that comes from fracking is dumped into local streams or fields contaminating the water

Global warming is real. Seven billion people contribute every day to destroying our planet. Global warming is gradual heating on earth due to the greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are trapping heat that should be escaping earth. John Hawkins a columnist, wrote an article Five Scientific Reasons That Global Warming Isn't Happening, Hawkins suggest a global warming on our planet isn’t happening because the scientific evidence available suggested that man wasn't causing global warming. However, our planet is showing facts on how it is being consumed quickly. The heating of the planet has been linked to melting glaciers, partial information on climate change including partisan articles.

The new technological advancement which is also known as “Fracking” process has tremendously increased the supply of natural gas in America. And on the other hand, as natural gas does not emit the greenhouse gases like that of coal fuel energy, the consumer preference of coal based products switched to natural gas. As supply and demand of natural gas kept increasing, fracking process has also increased in larger extent in different regions of the country. As a result, negative impacts are also generated like water contamination, air pollution, health problems, natural resources impact and broader economic impacts (Environment America

For many years now, oil and gas have been harvested from deep beneath the Earth’s surface using thousands and millions of gallons of water, known as hydraulic fracking. Environmental critics have brought up issues with this type of fracking. The main being that while using these massive amounts of water every time a well is fracked, all the used water, when finished, is causing significant amounts of pollution. In response to the current criticism, engineers have developed waterless fracking operations, where propane gel, butane, and other liquid and gas alternatives are used to break the shale that is deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Even though this new water-free system does not use the massive amounts of water like its hydraulic counterpart, there are still critics saying that it has its own environmental impacts. Assessing these impacts and therefore the philosophical justifications for this sort of method provides support for its continued use.

Energy is our main source for everything we do, the primary question is where do we get our energy? Fracking is a method in which entities use in order to obtain natural gas, which furthermore can create heat for our homes and gas for our cars. This is a huge controversial topic that people seem to be very ambiguous about. The questions that arise with fracking are whether or not it’s better than green energy and is it harmful to the Earth. This constant need of energy requires our world to have a primary source for energy, so is fracking appropriate for this primary role? Deroy Murdock wrote an opinionated article supporting the argument that fracking actually out-greens ‘green’ energy. Murdock blatantly states that water contamination

Global Warming has been a very serious conversation over the last decade, because it affects every person living on the planet whether we choose to believe it or not. Most of the scientific community claims that global warming is to blame for the changes in Earth’s climate. However, there are a small number of scientists who deny the very existence of global warming. Temperatures on earth have increased approximately 1.4°F since the early 20th century. Over time, atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) have notably increased. Both sides in the debate surrounding global climate change agree on the CO2 and CH4 being increased and that’s it.

Global warming skeptics say that there is no evidence to prove that global warming is really happening. The warmest years on record occur within the last eighteen years. Glaciers all over the world are receding. Carbon dioxide emissions have grown by 90% since 1970. Species are going extinct due to habitat loss. Weather is becoming more extreme, such as more droughts and more hurricanes. Ocean levels are rising. Climate change is a common occurrence for earth, and I think it's safe to say there is definately a climate change occurring. What people have to consider now is whether or not we will be able to sustain life for hundreds of years to come or if we should all just pack up and move to mars before the earth extincts us itself.

The energy crisis and climate change are both topics that we hear about on a daily basis. We all know that the earth has only so much oil and coal. Not only are we running out of these resources, but we are also causing irreversible damage to the earth by continuing to use them. The world’s largest companies, richest entrepreneurs and the best scientists are working to create a solution to these problems. Billions of dollars are being invested into renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and many believe that they are viable options for the future. However one form of energy has become more popular in recent years and it isn’t a renewable resource. Natural gas extracted by hydraulic fracturing or more commonly known as fracking

Climate change has slowly started to become a hot button issue in every aspect of our culture. Climbing its way out of just being topic of conversation between scientists to becoming a large debate in politics, finding its way into schools, social media, and almost everywhere else. This rise of conversation about climate change is a sparking a series of questions about our choices for the future. These four different articles will each invoke a different thought, having you reflect on three different questions: (1) Can the world’s energy needs to be feasibly met with renewable sources and, if so, how soon? (2) What is the environmental and economic role of natural gas (obtained through fracking of shale structures) as a bridge toward a sustainable future? And (3) to what extent can individual citizens create their own sustainable local communities that constrain the excesses of corporate capitalism?

When many people think about their future, usually they are only considering things that will effect or benefit their personal lives. Things such as the city that they will live or if they will have the same job five years down the road. Few people think about what may be going on in the environment around them. Global warming, also known as the greenhouse effect, is a rise in the entire temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. It has been receiving a lot of attention from scientists in the past few years. However, this is not a problem that has just been discovered. It has been evolving throughout history since 1928. But, it is a system that started around eighteen thousand years ago (When Did Global Warming Start?). Global warming is