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I totally agree with what you say. To add on that, effects of Russian war in Ukraine may have extraordinary effect on global climate, given that to limit consumption of Russian oil and gas Europe invests more in renewables and even considers building new nuclear power plants.

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The short term effect of Europe's move away from pipeline gas to LNG will be to increase CO2 emissions, if only because production and transportation of LNG consumes about 10% of the original gas.

Furthermore, emissions of methane from LNG production and transportation contribute to global warming - by some estimates at a rate comparable to the CO2 emissions.

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