When I encounter people who deny the reality of human-caused global warming, I'm sorry,

but to me, those are basically flat earthers, and I won't even have the conversation anymore.

One of the culprits is natural gas mining, which releases methane and results in a product

that produces carbon dioxide.

Fracking is what makes natural gas mining so productive, but does fracking itself cause

a whole other range of environmental consequences.

The truth behind fracking is coming right up, Unskeptoid.

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All about fracking.

There are a few technologies today quite so popularly disliked as fracking, short for

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