Quickie: State Dep't. underestimated #KeystoneXL emissions, per study

Gottalaff
Monday, August 11, 2014, 5:51 pm
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Yet *another* study confirms it: Scientists "overwhelmingly" agree that man made climate change is happening http://t.co/dMD5S2PmZK
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- Salon.com (@Salon) August 11, 2014
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Today's Quickie, via the Los Angeles Times:
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Building the Keystone XL pipeline could lead to as much as four times more greenhouse gas emissions than the State Department has estimated for the controversial project, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change that relies on different calculations about oil consumption.
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"The sole reason for this difference is that we account for the changes in global oil consumption resulting from increasing oil sands production levels, whereas the State Department does not," wrote authors Peter Erickson and Michael Lazarus, scientists based in Seattle with the Stockholm Environment Institute, a nonprofit research organization.

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Of course, who would trust a nonprofit, fact-based scientific organization when we can rely on the expertise of wealthy, self-serving TransCanada Corporate oil oozers?


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