[logicalmonster]

Advancements in Carbon Capture and storage (CCS) and other technologies might significantly change this initial estimate. I’m not saying that I love gas as the next 100 years of energy, but I think dealing in absolutes here in a continuously developed field is extreme shortsightedness.

[etrautmann]

Yes, but we'd need to make unbelievable strides in a short amount of time in order to meaningfully impact the climate. It may be worth the considerable investment and expense of course, but to imagine offsetting the combined activity of all fossile fuel burning uses is difficult to imagine.