Fracking --> Natural Gas --> Lower CO2 --> Decreased Global Warming

Updates

October 8, 2012: technologies opposed by faux-environmentalists -- fracking and genetically modified crops -- have lowered CO2 emissions -- at CarpeDiem.com

Original Post

Link here to Bloomberg. For those who believe in anthropogenic global warming, this is an interesting story.

The boom in American natural-gas production is doing what international negotiations and legislation couldn’t: reducing U.S. carbon-dioxide pollution.

With decade-low prices, natural gas is easing out coal in power generation, a change that cuts greenhouse gases by half at the smokestack. That shift, combined with state programs to encourage renewable energy and new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency that could come as early as today, has put the country on course to cut domestic greenhouse-gas emissions 12 percent by 2020, on par with what the failed cap-and-trade legislation aimed to achieve.

And so it goes.