{"id":5508,"date":"2015-02-10T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2015-02-10T06:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:45:58","slug":"why-a-uk-shale-gas-industry-is-incompatible-with-the-2c-framing-of-dangerous-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5508","title":{"rendered":"Why a UK shale gas industry is incompatible with the 2\u00b0C framing of dangerous climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.uk\/2015\/02\/10\/why-uk-shale-gas-industry-incompatible-2-c-framing-dangerous-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\">Why a UK shale gas industry is incompatible with the 2\u00b0C framing of dangerous climate change<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This piece is a response to\u00a0Professor Robert Mair\u2019s\u00a0Royal\u00a0Society\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.royalsociety.org\/in-verba\/2015\/01\/26\/hydraulic-fracturing-for-shale-gas-in-the-uk-an-opportunity-to-shape-a-constructive-way-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\">science policy blog<\/a>,\u00a0<em>\u201cHydraulic fracturing for shale gas in the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 an opportunity to shape a constructive way forward<\/em><em>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(<em>In Verba,\u00a0<\/em>26th\u00a0Jan):<\/p>\n<p>Professor Mair\u2019s Royal Society post suggests that the development of a\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u00a0shale gas industry is compatible with the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u2019s climate change targets. I suggest this conclusion is premised on a partial and overly simplistic interpretation of the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u2019s muddled climate change\u00a0obligations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shale gas within domestic carbon\u00a0budgets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The development of a\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u00a0shale gas industry may be compatible with the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u2019s domestic carbon budgets \u2013\u00a0<em>just<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These budgets are however premised on a high probability of\u00a0<em>exceeding<\/em>\u00a0the 2\u00b0C threshold between acceptable and dangerous climate change and on a highly inequitable allocation of the global carbon budget to the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Even under such lax conditions (and hence a larger\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u00a0carbon budget) there is a significant risk that a new and large-scale\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u00a0shale gas infrastructure could become a stranded asset within a decade or so of major shale gas\u00a0extraction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why a UK shale gas industry is incompatible with the 2\u00b0C framing of dangerous climate change This piece is a response to\u00a0Professor Robert Mair\u2019s\u00a0Royal\u00a0Society\u00a0science policy blog,\u00a0\u201cHydraulic fracturing for shale gas in the\u00a0UK\u00a0\u2013 an opportunity to shape a constructive way forward\u201d\u00a0(In Verba,\u00a026th\u00a0Jan): Professor Mair\u2019s Royal Society post suggests that the development of a\u00a0UK\u00a0shale gas industry is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[113,141,369,1875,723,820,3397],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-shale-industry","tag-shale-oil","tag-uk","tag-uk-shale-gas-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5509,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/5509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}