Website that tracks CO2 emissions!

Power plants are the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for 40 percent of the CO2 pumped into the atmosphere. A new Web site shows how much carbon is coming from each plant or power company around the world www.carma.org

Last Report by IPCC

Officially, tomorrow, nearly 200 governments will sign their names (again) to a statement that human activities are largely responsible for triggering climate change, that the impacts of climate change are already being felt, and that the cost of minimising future impacts is a sum that has previously been described as negligible ( see more in....New Scientist - Earth
www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/11/ipcc-let-political-battles-begin.html?feedId=earth_rss20

MIT study "The Future of Coal"

I just downloaded the study made by the MIT group about the future of coal in a carbon-constrained world (released last week). The study evaluates the technologies and costs associated with the generation of electricity from coal along with those associated with the capture and sequestration of the carbon dioxide produced coal-based power generation.

Coal-based energy plants produce most of CO2 emissions in US and within the next 5 years most of the US plants will be 40 years old of productive life (average is 50), besides the 2 new plants that TXU (Texas utility company) is going to build.

I think the sequestration of carbon is a great idea, but do we want to continue with coal-based plants? I think we need to push for more research on renewable energy generation and also on incentives.

You can find the MIT study "The Future of Coal" here:
http://web.mit.edu/coal/

Gore testified that is not too late to deal with climate change

clipped from www.nytimes.com Gore Urges Quick Action on Global Warming He rejected the contention by opponents of quick action on global warming that the United States should only impose mandatory controls on greenhouse gases if China, India and other rapidly developing nations agree to do the same. ''The best way and the only way to get China and India on board is for the U.S. to demonstrate real leadership,'' Gore said. ''As the world's largest economy and the greatest superpower, we are uniquely situated to tackle a problem of this magnitude,'' he said Gore advised lawmakers to cut carbon dioxide and other warming gases 90 percent by 2050 to avert a crisis. Doing that, he said, will require a ban on any new coal-burning power plants -- a major source of industrial carbon dioxide -- that lack state-of-the-art controls to capture the gases. He urged the Democratic-controlled Congress to adopt an immediate freeze on greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.