Tag: coal
Am I an activist for caring about my grandchildren’s future? I guess I am
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – I have long admired James Hansen as a person who cares for the future of all that we share our fragile planet with. The answers to all of the significant challenges we face in the imminent future is in OUR hands.
We need to accept this moral responsibility. The following article [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: activism, activist, activists, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, coal, glacial melt, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, Oil Industry, Tipping Points, United States
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We either cut global warming or live with it
By Daniel Gros Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies.
Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening.
This summer has given us one such example: the climate change bill, for which the US President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the US Senate because it stands no [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Cancoon, China, Climate Change, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, India, International negotiations, Kyoto, United States
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You have the power – Where does it come from?
The following presentation may make you think twice about how you use or limit the use of electricity. For Jeff Goodall, author of Big Coal, the Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, he says: Clean coal is sort of like healthy cigarettes or limited nuclear war or fat free donuts. It’s one of the great oxymoron’s [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2010 under General, Green Living.
Tags: CO2 Emissions, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations
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King Coal in Australia, the ugly political truth.
by Guy Pearse
The greatest coal rush the world has seen is being conducted as if climate change is not happening, and coal is king.
It wasn’t always this way. Coalmining has a long history in Australia, but coal wasn’t an important export until the last few decades. Before 1960, Queensland had no coal-export industry. Most of [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Australia, CO2 Emissions, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, coal lobby, Coal mining, global warming, Stop Coal, subsidies
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China’s Energy Use Threatens Goals on Warming
HONG KONG — Even as China has set ambitious goals for itself in clean-energy production and reduction of global warming gases, the country’s surging demand for power from oil and coal has led to the largest six-month increase in the tonnage of human generated greenhouse gases ever by a single country.
China’s leaders are so concerned [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: China, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, Copenhagen, global warming, greenhouse emissions
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Total World Coal Consumption in 2008: 7,238,207,000 Short Tons! – Who uses it?
This analysis & posting by Michael Graham Richard of TreeHugger shows us where we are headed with our addiction to burning fossil carbon.
Total World Coal Consumption in 2008: 7,238,207,000 Short Tons!
When it comes to global warming and air pollution, coal is the number one enemy. We were curious to know which countries burned the most, [...]
Posted: May 2nd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, World News.
Tags: China, Climate Change, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, global warming, greenhouse emissions, pollution
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Time-Lapse NASA Video 1984- 2009. – Mountain top coal mine spreads across West Virginia.
Surface mining may not move mountains. But a series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine shows that the practice—also called mountaintop mining—can wipe out whole swaths of forests.
Video: Hobet Mine, 1984-2009
Taken between 1984 and 2009 by NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite, the true-color pictures document the evolution of the Hobet mine in the [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2010 under General.
Tags: coal, Coal mining, Stop Coal
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Lawmakers From Coal States Seek to Delay Emission Limits
WASHINGTON from the New Your Times — Coal-country lawmakers moved Thursday to impose a two-year moratorium on potential federal regulation of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering gases.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, said theEnvironmental Protection Agency should refrain from issuing any new rules on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, coal lobby, Coal mining, global warming, Obama administration, United States
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Does the Huge China-Australia Coal Deal Square With the Copenhagen Accord?
Environmental activists are attacking a $60 billion deal that will keep Chinese power stations supplied with Australian coal for at least the next two decades. Under the agreement announced last week, the Australian coal and iron ore mining company Resourcehouse will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development 30 million tonnes [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: Australia, China, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, Coal mining, pollution, Stop Coal
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What is China’s next move?
By Bob Williamson
As has been highlighted in several articles such as, ‘Consumption in a finite world of resources. – How can we sustain a future that isn’t FINITE?’
‘The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See and The SCARIEST Facts You’ll Ever Read!’
‘Undercover of Consumerism and Complacency, our democracy and self rule were usurped.’
‘Economic & Environmental Sustainability [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: China, coal, finite resources, Peak Oil, resource depletion, World Oil Reserves
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