Chart: The US is officially the world's biggest LNG exporter

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Chart: The US is officially the world’s biggest LNG exporter

The staggering rise in U.S. exports of the planet-warming fossil fuel comes as the country tries to position itself as a global climate leader.

Maria Virginia Olano | CanaryMedia.com | 20 October 2023

The United States has reached an energy milestone that’s squarely at odds with its ambition to be a climate leader: In the first six months of 2023, it exported more liquefied natural gas or LNG than any other country in the world, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

LNG — fossil gas that’s been cooled into a liquid state that’s easier to store and ship — causes planet-warming emissions at every step from extraction to transportation to burning.

Qatar was the world’s leading LNG exporter for years, until Australia surpassed it in 2021. The two countries have continued to export similar amounts of LNG since. Meanwhile, U.S. exports have skyrocketed. Just seven years ago, the U.S. barely produced or exported any LNG. Now it’s the world leader, and its exports are on track to keep growing.



Most U.S. LNG exports depart from the Gulf Coast, where massive terminals liquefy gas and pump it onto gigantic ships that carry it elsewhere in the world — these days, primarily to Europe. Two-thirds of U.S. LNG exports in the first half of this year went to European Union countries and the U.K., in large part to compensate for the lack of Russian gas as Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on...more
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/liquefied-natural-gas/chart-the-us-is-officially-the-worlds-biggest-lng-exporter

Down Memory Lane...

[NickB79]

1. Are fossil fuel exports counted towards our carbon emissions?

Because I read articles like the one below, and it doesn't seem to square up with our growing fossil fuel exports.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/u-s-carbon-emissions-fall-for-first-time-in-biden-era/#:~:text=U.S.%20emissions%20fell%20by%205,States%20between%202011%20and%202020.

And whether it's burned here or overseas, the carbon enters the global atmosphere.

[Caribbeans]

2. According to NPR

Climate pledges don't stop countries from exporting huge amounts of fossil fuels

NPR | October 31, 2021

The U.S. may be on the verge of passing the most consequential climate change legislation ever. President Biden is expected to tout it at a big climate change meeting in Glasgow this week. But that won't change one of the country's major sources of greenhouse gas emissions: fossil fuel exports.

The U.S. is among countries that plan to keep exporting oil, natural gas and coal for decades to come even as they work to zero out climate-warming fossil fuel emissions at home. In an increasingly controversial quirk, this is perfectly acceptable under the Paris climate agreement.

Under that deal, countries set targets to reduce their climate-warming emissions. But fossil-fuel exporting countries, including the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Norway, do not have to count emissions produced by their exports. Instead, they are counted by the country that ultimately burns them...more
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/31/1049822365/despite-their-climate-pledges-the-u-s-and-others-export-huge-amounts-of-fossil-f

When all else fails, it's Mike Pompeo time