usnews.com - 3/19/2009
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U.S. News and World Report: America runs on coal. It's cheap, plentiful (at least for another 100 years or so), and comfortingly domestic. Two hundred years ago, it powered the industrial revolution. Today, it spits out nearly half of the country's electricity. Coal's problems, however, are ...
guardian.co.uk - 3/25/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
I usually agree with George Monbiot and love
the way he says it but this time –
with his assertion that the latest miracle mass fuel cure, biochar, does not stand up – he has got it only half right. Yes, it is silly to rename charcoal as biochar and ...
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James Lovelock on Biochar: let the Earth remove CO2 for ...
guardian.co.uk - 3/25/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
George Monbiot's implication that we believe biochar is
a miracle solution to CO2 reduction is grossly misunderstood
It is unfortunate that George Monbiot has insinuated that one of us (Jim Hansen) is a believer in biochar as a "miracle" solution ...
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We never said biochar is a miracle cure
e360.yale.edu - 3/13/2009
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e360.yale.edu —
For nearly a decade, The New Yorker’s Elizabeth
Kolbert has been reporting on climate change. In an
interview with Yale Environment 360, she talked about the responsibility of both the media and scientists to better inform the public about the ...
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A Reporter's Feld Notes on The Coverage of Climate Change
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Why Clean Coal Is Years Away
Peak Oil News —
... in the ground as fly ash, a sludgelike material that became big news last year when a retaining wall at an ash dump in Tennessee suddenly gave way, releasing thousands of pounds of waste into people's front yards. So, it's not just CO2 that's problematic. In fact, in the early 1990s, clean coal referred almost exclusively to efforts aimed at curbing nitrogen and sulfur pollution. Today, clean coal has morphed to mean coal from a plant that doesn't emit CO2. And it doesn't exist yet. US News ...
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theenergycollective.com 6/23/2009 — We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
– John W. Gardner
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Going once, going twice . . . .
theenergycollective.com 5/24/2009 — As the American Clean Energy & Security Act (ACES) 2009 (i.e. Waxman-Markey) shows itself, it reveals some different thinking on emissions trading to that in Europe, notably in the area of allowance distribution.
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realclimate.org 8/28/2009 — Some of you may be aware of George Monbiot’s so-far-unsuccessful attempt to pin down Ian Plimer on his ridiculous compendium of non-science . In response to Monbiot’s request for explanation and sources for some of Plimer’s more ...
Ten big green ideas from the Geneva Motor Show
guardian.co.uk 3/4/2009 — Car makers may be in trouble, but that's not stopping them rolling out new green ideas at the Geneva Motor Show, writes motoring journalist Richard Aucock 1. GM hasn't killed the electric car In 2006, a documentary film Called Who Killed the ...
Plimer resorts to attack as the best form of defence
guardian.co.uk 8/12/2009 — The champion of climate change denial has responded to me, but creates more questions than he answers Well, well, this becomes ever more interesting. A few weeks ago, after I attacked the crazy claims about climate change in his book Heaven and ...
Climate Bill Could Dramatically Increase US Energy Security
switchboard.nrdc.org 9/24/2009 — One of the key findings from a new NRDC climate policy study is that policies to support CO2 capture and sequestration at power plants and industrial facilities could also help recover almost 37 billion barrels of stranded domestic oil by ...
Carbon storage might not be so permanent
cleanbreak.ca 2/16/2009 — Okay, as far as the concept of carbon capture and storage goes, the idea — technologically — is intriguing. What many readers of this blog don’t like is how the industry talks about this technology like it’s here today so, ...
CO2 is green: the TV advert making viewers choke
guardian.co.uk 9/29/2009 — A TV advert paid for by an oil industry lobbyist telling Americans "more CO2 results in a greener earth" would be almost funny if it weren't so depressing "Is this a joke?" splutters one of the comments underneath the YouTube video of a new ...
What to do about Coal? —
Scientific American - Environment 3/19/2009
Editor's Note: We are posting this feature from our September 2006 issue in light of the Obama administration's renewed focus on how to use the most abundant--and dirtiest--fossil fuel, coal, without overloading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. ...
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