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Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal-fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate. Tom Wigley, a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reports that if natural gas were substituted for coal in energy production, climate change trends would not slow down and may, in fact, accelerate. His findings are due to be published in the journal Climatic Change Letters

A new study from MIT says that natural gas is the key to keeping emissions down while we transfer to renewables.

Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 45% -- The amount of fracked natural gas the U.S.