Posts Tagged ‘coal power’

• Denmark to end their reliance on fossil fuels, aims for 100 percent renewable energy in 2050

  The new red and green government in Denmark wants to end the country’s reliance on fossil fuels. In a proposal presented to the parliament last week the Danish government laid out their new and bold energy plan. By 2050 Denmark …

• Polish EU budget chief questions global warming and climate targets

  Janusz Lewandowsk, the Polish budget commissioner and chief architect of the EU’s forthcoming €130 multi-annual budget, is receiving strong criticism after expressing his doubts about global warming and the future emission policies of the EU. In an interview with a …

• Why we must oppose transition to gas-fired power

  “These estimates translate to a climate genocide involving the deaths of 10 billion people this century…” There is an overwhelming global scientific consensus that global warming is real, man-made and must be urgently addressed, As adjudged from the rhetoric at …

• Costing CO2 abatement – renewables, geothermal and biochar

  “The World is running out of time but there is still hope that reason, science and rational risk management will prevail.” Before the global recession hit (and reduced the soaring price of fossil fuels), the “market cost” of the best …

• Creative ad placement from the Reality Coalition

  While surfing the Washington Post this blogger found a creative ad placement from the Reality Coalition (see image above), which purpose is to tell the American public that there is no “clean coal”: “I noticed this the other morning when …

• Activist singlehandedly sabotages British coal plant, reduces Britain’s carbon output by 2%

  Photo credit: izzie_whizzie Yesterday it was revealed that on November 28 one activist managed to breach the coal-powered Kingsnorth plant, one of the most heavily guarded power stations in Britain. The activist singlehandedly managed to get in, stop the power …

• McCain embraces dirty coal, says he is a “coal booster”

  Photo credit: Photo Mojo John McCain, the Republican Presidential candidate, who failed to mention climate change in his acceptance speech, who picked a climate change denier as his running mate, who won’t regulate greenhouse gases, whose energy plan is mainly …

• Climate Criminal Australia’s Culture of Ignoring, Climate Terrorism, Climate Racism and Climate Genocide

  “You will be SHOCKED by the response…” I belong to a Melbourne-based Climate Action Group called the Yarra Valley Climate Action Group (YVCAG) which is very active in public education through public meetings, participation in public demonstrations and by providing …

• Orwellian Australian “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme” will DOUBLE Greenhouse Gas Pollution by 2050

  Only a few weeks after the release of the Draft Report of the seriously flawed, pro-coal, Australian Garnaut Climate Change Review (4 July, 2008; see my critique on Green Blog, “Pro-Coal, Australian Garnaut Climate Review Damns Coral, Australia & World”), …

• Pollutants from coal-based electricity generation kill 170,000 people annually

  The image shows the old Cahokia Power Plant in Sauget, IL which has been decommissioned for 31 years. Photo: Jay Dugger Top British climate scientist Professor James Lovelock FRS has warned that over 6 billion people will die this century …