Nice, but Natural Gas is also too carbon intensive to continue burning at the scale needed. It's an improvement from traditional coal, but it's not a long-term solution to our power needs.
In the long term, it doesn't matter. In the great plains today, wind is the cheapest new electricity - cheaper than gas even with gas at historically stupid-low prices. And the price of wind keeps dropping. Solar is catching wind, surpassing it on price in some places in the world (lowest known PV public bid is US$0.0230/kWh, recently in Abu Dhabi).. Prices for solar keep dropping too, another 35%-40% in the US this year at utility scale. Project that out over the life of a new gas or coal powerplant (or nuclear).
Storage is following fast and rapid cost declines are happening there too, which will be putting oil- and gas-peakers out of business over the next decade.
Republicans blocking renewables are now engaged in a war on rational economics, not just a war on science. And again, it probably doesn't matter. As their old donors go broke, their new, cleaner-industry donors will cause their platform to green.