{"id":1281,"date":"2014-01-30T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2014-01-30T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:00:15","slug":"shale-gas-incompatible-with-uk-carbon-commitments-hoc-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/shale-gas-incompatible-with-uk-carbon-commitments-hoc-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Shale gas incompatible with UK carbon commitments &#8211; HoC talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 2013 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/APPGUOG-Shale-Talk-PDF-AndersonBroderick-20134.pdf\">Shale gas: a golden age or a gilded cage?<\/a>\u00a0 House of Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presentation to the <em>&#8220;all party group for unconventional oil and gas&#8221;<\/em> chaired by Dan Byles MP and with speakers\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">David Kennedy, Chief Executive of the Committee on Climate Change and Professor Neil Hirst, Senior Policy Fellow at the Grantham Institute. The\u00a0<\/span>presentation<span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">\u00a0demonstrated how the maths and\u00a0<\/span>science around the UK&#8217;s repeated international commitment to make its fair contribution to avoiding a 2\u00b0C rise in global temperature left no emission space for a new fossil fuel industry. No amount of careful regulation,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">monitoring, or even the introduction of carbon capture and storage, can reconcile shale gas\u00a0<\/span>with<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0avoiding dangerous climate change; from a UK, or indeed EU, basis, the two are simply incompatible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 2013 Shale gas: a golden age or a gilded cage?\u00a0 House of Commons Presentation to the &#8220;all party group for unconventional oil and gas&#8221; chaired by Dan Byles MP and with speakers\u00a0David Kennedy, Chief Executive of the Committee on Climate Change and Professor Neil Hirst, Senior Policy Fellow at the Grantham Institute. The\u00a0presentation\u00a0demonstrated how the maths and\u00a0science around the UK&#8217;s repeated international commitment to make its fair contribution to avoiding a 2\u00b0C rise in global temperature left no emission space for a new fossil fuel industry. No amount of careful regulation,\u00a0monitoring, or even the introduction of carbon capture and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}