On his NY Time's DotEarth blog, journalist Andy Revkin writes:
This enduring notion — that the world can have its coal and climate, too, by pumping the carbon dioxide from combustion into the earth — has been promoted by institutions including Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest coal company (see its coal-sales ticker here), and the Natural Resources Defense Council. A group that pushed the clean-coal theme at the Democratic convention, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, will be heading to the Republican convention next week. Environmentalists have attacked the group as the latest in a string of industry propaganda mills."
Thanks for the link to DeSmog Andy!
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
This post is the second of a two part series. Read the first installment, Unreported Emissions From Natural Gas Blow Up BC's Climate Action Plan.
Methane leaks from British Columbia's natural gas industry are likely at least 7 times greater than official numbers increasing the entire provinces' carbon footprint by nearly 25%. That's like putting 3 million more vehicles on BC's roads.
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Too much "chin music" and political posing but no real action
To behold such huge challenges to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth; and to see so many pathetic responses to them by politicians and government sinecurists, are abominable signs of a state of dangerous decay, one that is destroying the very heart and soul of political life.
Burn biomass. Sequester some too.
Torrefied wood ought to work in any existing coal reactor; some is already being co-fired with coal.
Also, some, or any biochar, ought to sequestered deep undergraound.
Shame on NRDC of claiming so-called clean coal can ever be a solution.
Obama on Clean Coal
Shame on Obama for supporting Clean Coal in his acceptance speach last week.
Shame on Environmentalists
For fighting any and every attempt to address polution while maintaining our current standard of living.
It is now all too obvious that environmentalists are not interested in any technological solutions to polution.
And does not even address the FACT that CO2 is NOT polution.
The only acceptable path for them is to enter into another dark age and pretend to be "one with the Earth".
Will we ever be rid of wide eyed innocent tree hugging eco fanatics?