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BRAVE NEW CLIMATE
by Barry Brook
28 November 2010
Climate change professor supports nuclear in newly published analysis:
When a carbon price that is high enough to drive a technology switch eventually kicks in, only nuclear power will keep the lights on, keep electricity costs down, and meet long-term emission reduction targets, say three Australian authors in a paper published this week in international peer-reviewed journal Energy*
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TIME/CNN
By Joe Klein
Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010
"We wanted to deliver the message that we're sending [$700 million] a day overseas for oil," said Jonathan Murray, the group's director and a Marine Corps veteran. "Our message wasn't about climate change. It was about national security. It was about not being dependent on countries like Saudi Arabia and Iraq..." Read more... |
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by Jonathan Smith
November 26, 2010
In 2006 coal ranked second to petroleum, accounting for 27.4 percent of world primary energy production. “World coal production totaled 6.8 billion short tons, or 128 quadrillion Btu in 2006,” notes (XLS) the EIA (Energy Information Agency). World coal production increased (XLS) by 32.7 percent from the 1996 level of 5.1 billion short tons.
Authored by a large team of scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and European countries, a Global Carbon Project report now predicts CO2 emissions from burning coal, oil and gas will reach their highest in history this year
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ScienceDaily
May 4, 2009
If CO2 emissions are halved by 2050 compared to 1990, global warming can be stabilised below two degrees. This is shown by two studies by a co-operation of German, Swiss and British researchers in the journal Nature. |
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