{"id":709,"date":"2016-06-12T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T13:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/?page_id=709"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T07:37:48","slug":"climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/resources\/climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Fracking releases vast quantities of methane into the atmosphere.<\/h1>\n<p>Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2,\u00a0\u00a0and escapes during the exploration, production, storage, and distribution phases of the gas life-cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The Climate Change Commission\u00a0has accepted that coal bed methane is twice as bad as coal from a climate change perspective, due to the &#8216;fugitive emissions&#8217; of methane.<\/p>\n<p>At COP21 in Paris in 2015, the South African government committed to reducing carbon emissions to meet the\u00a0global warming target of 1.5 degrees Celsius. \u00a0In order to meet that target, we need to abandon fossil fuels in favour of renewables as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theecologist.org\/News\/news_analysis\/2987783\/fracking_is_twice_as_bad_for_climate_as_coal_will_the_climate_change_committee_ban_it.html\">Fracking is twice as bad as Coal for Climate Change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-710\" src=\"http:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/r-dont-incinerate-africa.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Incinerate Africa - Stop Fossil Fuels\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/r-dont-incinerate-africa.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/r-dont-incinerate-africa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/r-dont-incinerate-africa-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fracking releases vast quantities of methane into the atmosphere. Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2,\u00a0\u00a0and escapes during the exploration, production, storage, and distribution phases of the gas life-cycle. The Climate Change Commission\u00a0has accepted that coal bed methane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":216,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709\/revisions\/1090"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}