Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have formed a Climate Action Task Force to try to convince Congress to do something productive and to prevent them from doing anything stupid. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency has finally published their rule for “Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New Stationary Sources,” i.e., power plants.
The Republicans are predictably apoplectic about the new regulations, claiming that carbon capture technology is not ready for primetime. You can read a condensed version of their talking points here. Basically, they are saying that the rule will prevent any new coal-burning power plants from being built, despite the fact that new coal-burning power plants are being built, and more are in the planning stages.
The thing is, I don’t know why these folks are worried. The energy-producing corporations always win.
And this would be a bad thing?
if you produce coal, yes.
I am hoping the science on Global Warming is completely wrong. Because if it is right, then even if we stop emitting industrial carbon dioxide 100% starting now the best we can hope for is a dramatic transformation of the Earth’s environment over the next 250 years so severe that the poles will be like the tropics and the tropics will be unlivable. And if we keep increasing the C02 PPM as we are doing humans will not be able to live on the earth without artificial means in 100 years.
So, all I can do is hope the science is wrong.
Does that make me a Republican?
I’m intrigued, not to mention hopeful, that companies like Newlight can make affordable air carbon
We’ll see.
I’d have to read more into it. How much have you read?
Is this another cold fusion that never pans out?