Surprise! CO 2 emissions DOWN 20%

  Fracking is the latest technology in acquiring natural gas; it's effective, efficient and has the ability to make the United States (and Ohio) a wealthy nation with a product to sell. Thus, of course, the environmentalists are trying to find every way possible to discredit it. Hoosierman has extensively covered the Marcellus and Utica Shales in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
  The "documentary" Gasland is Hollywood's attempt stop fracking; in fact, if you read the Wikipedia entry the first things you'll read is that the Wikipedia entry reads like "an advertisement" and is in need of a "more neutral point of view." Gasland's goal was to prove that fracking ruins the water, turning it into flammable tainted liquid, and thus should be disqualified as an energy acquisition resource.
  Gasland has been widely debunked; in fact, the conditions that exist which create flammable water have existed since the settlers first came to this country. Thus the name, Burning Springs, New York:

  So what to make of the fact that CO2 emissions in the United States are down TWENTY PERCENT due to this newfangled process of fracking?

  Naturally environmentalists, whose real goal is walking communities where the most energy expended is through heavy breathing on a bike, are having difficulty understanding this development.

  Reason:

Lots of environmental activists dislike cheap natural gas because it outcompetes their first loves, photovoltaic and wind power. It spooks the nuke folks too. I noted a Washington Post headline back in February that actually read: "Cheap Gas Jumbles Energy Markets, Stirs Fears that It Could Inhibit Renewables." 

  What has to be understood about the climate alarmists is that they are funded through massive grants and dispensations; if they lose their climate change complaints, they lose their sugar daddy. Thus, it is not in their interest to say the battle is won.
  The WaPo/AP cites skeptics' concerns:

“The Sierra Club has serious doubts about the net benefits of natural gas,” said Deborah Nardone, director of the group’s Beyond Natural Gas campaign.
“Without sufficient oversight and protections, we have no way of knowing how much dangerous pollution is being released into Americans’ air and water by the gas industry. For those reason, our ultimate goal is to replace coal with clean energy and energy efficiency and as little natural gas as possible.” 

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Some worry that cheap gas could hurt renewable energy efforts.
“Installation of new renewable energy facilities has now all but dried up, unable to compete on a grid now flooded with a low-cost, high-energy fuel,” two experts from Colorado’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute said in an essay posted this week on Environment360, a Yale University website. 

  Government didn't create this development in the energy industry; capitalism did, which is one of the reasons environmentalists, among whom nestle quite a few communists, are so concerned about its emergence as a player on the national scene.
  Fracknation is a film that debunks Gasland; it is now in production. Here's a bit of video by its producers explaining what it needed to be made and why Gasland is a fraud.
  It's a lot of work, finding "good" causes that bring you national attention, passion and lots of government money to fight for your cause. 
  There's the added benefit of being able to contemptuously sling hateful condescending comments to your ignorant naysayers.
  At this rate (the United States cut carbon emissions more than any other country),  climate alarmists are going to have to find another cause.