#BP Was Warned Gas-Driven Climate Change Could Cause ‘Unprecedented Famine’.
Yet the oil and gas major led a campaign to present gas as a climate solution, new ‘confidential’ documents released by a U.S. Congressional investigation reveal.
"A confidential 2018 presentation from #BP notes that while gas may release less #emissions when burned than coal, those climate gains can be erased by leakages of the “potent” greenhouse gas #methane."
https://www.desmog.com/2024/05/03/bp-was-warned-gas-driven-climate-change-could-cause-unprecedented-famine-us-congressional-investigation/
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