Robert Howarth's December 14, 2019 talk on Shale Gas and Methane
On December 14, 2019, the Sierra Club Finger Lakes Group, Fossil Free Tompkins & Sustainable Tompkins hosted a talk by Robert Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology at Cornell University, asking "Is Shale Gas a Major Driver of Recent Increases in Global Atmospheric Methane?" Howarth, who participated in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, among other things, is a world authority on the effects of human activity on the environment.
