Posts Tagged ‘coal’

• 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 …

• Ecological unequal exchange is helping Europe maintain its leading role, greenhouse gases and overconsumption

  “To secure future oil imports USA is now using “force to reassert dominance” via “state terror and coercion” in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Ecological unequal exchange, or the zero-sum model, can help us understand many things about the world’s international trade, …

• Bill Maher takes on Obama on climate change: “This isn’t what I voted for”

  “This is not what I voted for,” Bill Maher said on his HBO show Friday night, arguing that Barack Obama has maintained his personal popularity but failed to make real progress on climate change, the economy and health care in …

• 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 …

• Watch: Vattenfall’s greenwashing campaign continues to face protests

  Last year I reported about Vattenfall, Europe’s third-largest energy company which is entirely owned by the Swedish government, and their latest greenwashing campaign. Their campaign involved a “climate manifesto” to hide their own dirty businesses, and on top of that …

• Green Quote of the Week: James Hansen on Coal River Mountain

  Photo credit: World Development Movement Top US climate scientist Dr James Hansen shares his thoughts about Coal River Mountain and Barack Obama’s coal policy in general in a letter titled: “Tell President Obama About Coal River Mountain“. “Coal River Mountain …

• Watch: Monbiot meets Fatih Birol and Shaun Spiers

  In his second and third interview George Monbiot meets Fatih Birol, the International Energy Authority’s chief economist, and Shaun Spiers, head of the “anti environmental” organisation the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Britain’s leading green commentator tackles the International Energy …

• Climate Criminal Australia announces Terracidal “5% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020″

  Photo credit: go_greener_oz With Parliament in recession for Christmas and the Christmas-New Year holiday), the pro-Coal Australian Government that presides over the Developed World’s worst per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter and the World’s biggest coal exporter – climate criminal …

• 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 …