1. LOL so your argument is that because each and every year isn't much warmer than the last its getting colder.... fail. fail so hard. You can't spout this Bullshit and expect people to give you an ounce of respect - because with no real understanding of the subject your stating that every expert in the field is wrong... Your like a person who's never used a saw trying to explain to a carpenter how to work with wood.
2. @neverfearch 2011 was the 10th warmest year on record. Just about all of the warmest years were in recent decades. So, to say 2011 was the 10th warmest year, still PROVES COOLING, because in the past decade MOST of the years were WARMER than 2011. 2011 was warmer than the average of the 1980s, but it was cooler than the average years beyond the millenium. We're just at the edge of the Olduvai cliff. From here on the pace of change will BLOW YOUR MIND. Bullshit stamp on you.
3. @never Dr.'s Duncan and Youngquist predicted World Oil Production Decline to being in 2008. By the year 2012, they said PERMANENT BLACKOUTS will occur WORLD WIDE, due the incapacity to maintain the industrial infrastructure which is TOTALLY DEPENDENT on OIL for transportation fuel. As transportation is constricted, parts to maintain factories won't be delivered, coal won't be delivered to power plants, thus parts for trucks and power plants and everything won't be produced.
4. @neverfearchrisishere The ONLY thing that has delayed the onset of ice age is that the air has continued to be polluted by fossil fuels. But as oil production crashes, the carbon sink will eat the atmospheric carbon literally over night and without the CO2 pollution being constantly renewed, ice age WILL OCCUR and VERY SOON.
5. @neverfearchrisishere We've been in World Oil Production Decline since 2007. We're hitting the Olduvai gorge right now. The night time air in the summer in Vermont is literally freezing, the whole season long. Same thing in Rhode Island even a couple years ago. The switch has ALREADY been flipped. Thermal Haline Circulation has ALREADY been crashed by the melted glaciers. Typically the transition is 3 years from seasons in the temperate zone to year round glacial forming.
6. Fracking extracts coal from the deep as natural gas
7. Whoever saw Battlestar Galactica this segment was more interesting =3
8. Pawned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9. wow this josh guy is so great, why is he acting crazy and not letting people finish their sentences, he just comes off as irritating when in fact he has a lot of great points. 
10. global warming is over? temperature measurements put a big BULLSHIT stamp on that statement lol.
11. this was banned in the US. exempt from all environmental rules and legal suits against anyone that speaks out.
12. Global warming is over. We tipped the scales & will soon experience ice age as soon as oil burning declines. We're now in world oil production decline. Seriously. If you want to read about how we're heading into ice age google this article that's on commondreams dott org: How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age Everything described in the article already happened. Now we're running out of fossil fuels to keep the global temp high, so it's going to crash. Thermal haline circ already crashed
13. There's over 10,000 land fills in the US emitting methane gas.Only 250 US landfills have methane utilization projects. Essentially the methane is trapped for use as fuel by these methane capture projects.People COULD though be developing their own methane gas production very easily. You just build what's called a digester. It's this easy, cow poo bacteria stirred in water, then biodegradables are tossed in, fallen leaves, garbage, spent paper whatever, seal the vat, get the gas from a top valve.
14. Everybody should buy Josh Foxes movie on DVD "Gas Land", then donate it to your local library, especially if you live in the midwest or on top of the Marsellis Shale.
15. LOVE JOSH FOX. That guy is the best.
16. Water testing for viturally any kind of chemical is ridicualously easy. Why nobody is doing this and simply producing sceintific evidence demonstrating a tainted water supply is beyond me. EVERYONE has access to the water supply, and ANYONE can EASILY send water into a Lab to find toxic chemicals. Granted, the EPA is just around to ensure the profits of companies, but there are COURTS that can prevent fracking from being performed.
17. The FRAC Act (H.R.1084)(S.587) aimed at disclosing the frack chems was introduced into Congress in 2009 and is stuck in The House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It is buried in a list of several hundred bills under consideration. Look the committee up and see why nothing ever gets accomplished in Congress. While you're at it, write the four members and tell to get on this bill!
18. Agreed. How/why the states allow gas companies free reign on their soil without any prior testing is absolute insanity. 10 years ago legislators might have been able to claim ignorance, now it is simply criminal neglect. How do we force obstinate/paid off law makers to change the paradigm?
19. AS NOBODY IN THE MEDIA HAS REPORTED ANY SCIENTIFIC TESTING OF THE EFFECTS OF FRACKING, ALL THIS SHIT IS FRACKING USELESS. THE WATER SUPPLIES NEAR FRACKING NEED TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY TESTED.
20. on board hydrogen production thats the solution along with the utilization of breaking down ammonia into its separate components already developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s
21. AlJazeeraEnglish is an independent broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar(an arab country)through the Qatar Media Corporation. you dont have to trust what any one says here, but listen with your own ears and hear an honest debate. all sides of the issue were represented here.
22. No doubt, I'd like to stilck this guy, McKenna, in a shitkicker bar in a town with polluted water. I'd be there with a video camera, laughing while his punk whore ass beaten to a pulp.
23. Michael McKenna really needs to learn how to cover his ass better. He's a prostitute for the oil industry for god sakes; they can buy better!
24. One of the best Inside Story hosts. Intellectually impartial and apposite questioning. Well done AlJ

Inside Story Americas - Fracking: A cure or a curse?

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A race is on to extract natural gas from vast swathes of the US, but is fracking the cure for an energy-hungry country or a flawed process with disastrous human and environmental consequences? Bernard Goldstein, Michael McKenna and Josh Fox discuss.
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