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Senate passes pro-renewables energy bill
New York Times, 06.22.07
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats celebrated a step toward reducing U.S. dependence on oil as the Senate approved a bill calling for more ethanol and the first boost in gas mileage in decades.
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In case we can’t give up the cars – try 16 trillion mirrors
Wall Street Journal, 06.22.07
What if we wait too long to act on global warming? What if nothing we do is enough? Already, scientists are working up plans of last resort: stratospheric sprays of sulfur, trillions of orbiting mirrors and thousands of huge off-shore saltwater fountains.
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An Apollo program for climate change
Washington Post, 06.22.07
In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the nation, by the end of that decade, to landing Americans on the moon and bringing them safely back to Earth. Kennedy identified specific interim goals, such as developing a lunar spacecraft, new rocket booster technologies, and the deployment of satellite communication and weather observation systems.
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Darfur conflict worsens environment
Washington Post, 06.22.07
DAMRAT SURMI, Sudan — Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur’s violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land. Now, experts fear the war and its refugee crisis are making the environment even worse, leaving the land increasingly uninhabitable and intensifying tensions with no end to the drought in sight.
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Alstom to develop CO2 capture plant
Washington Post, 06.22.07
PARIS — French engineering company Alstom said Friday it won a development contract with Germany power and gas provider E.on AG to develop a carbon dioxide emissions capture plant in southern Sweden.
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Science panel finds fault with estimates of coal supply
New York Times, 06.21.07
WASHINGTON, June 20 — The United States may not have nearly as much coal as is popularly believed, and mining the remaining resources may be more dangerous for workers and the environment than current operations, the National Academy of Sciences said in a report Wednesday.
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Global investment into renewable energy up
New York Times, 06.20.07
PARIS (AP) — Renewable energy has moved out of the fringe and into the mainstream, with investors worldwide pouring $71 billion of new capital into the sector in 2006, up 43 percent from the previous year, and more is expected, a U.N. report said Wednesday.
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Heads in the clouds
Wall Street Journal, 06.21.07
Green is in. So it’s no surprise that the tint of the aerospace biz’s trend-setting event — this week’s air show at Le Bourget airport — unmistakably went along with the zeitgeist.
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June 25th, 2007 at 5:39 am
The is no way worldwide greenhouse gas emissions are going to fall so fast and so severely that abrupt climate change and runaway global warming will be avoided.
I suggest using a low cost and technically feasible method of removing the CO2 from the air after it has been emitted. I suggest using genetic engineering to improve nature, and seed a GMO into the ocean.
I have written extensively on this subject-spend trillions of dollars changing the energy infrastructure in a likely futile effort, or use biosequestration and let nature solve the problem.
dobermantmacleod@aol.com