Comments on: A REAL debate: Mike Brune v. Clean Coal http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/08/a-real-debate-mike-brune-v-clean-coal/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:45:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: jrandomluser http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/08/a-real-debate-mike-brune-v-clean-coal/#comment-69915 jrandomluser Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:54:29 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6294#comment-69915 I mean, Brune is confusing the issue. Climate change requires limiting CO2 emissions. Brune is campaigning against a technology that Big coal has been delaying because it will cost money. Rather than campaign to force Big Coal to put in the technology to drastically reduce emissions, Brune would rather tilt at windmills by declaring that the only goal should be to eliminate the entire industry. Never mind that China and India are basing their dream of a higher living standard on coal. Brune doesn't want the US to force its coal industry to rapidly develop a technology that could be transferred to the developing world to allow them to use their coal more safely. His problem seems to be that he believes that one dime spent on carbon capture is a dime not spent on renewable energy. $40 billion is spent in the US on pets each year. $20 billion in the US and EU is spent on cosmetic surgery. But not one dime of that money was taken from renewable energy development, no. The problem is carbon capture technology, and not one dime should be spent on that. I mean, Brune is confusing the issue. Climate change requires limiting CO2 emissions. Brune is campaigning against a technology that Big coal has been delaying because it will cost money. Rather than campaign to force Big Coal to put in the technology to drastically reduce emissions, Brune would rather tilt at windmills by declaring that the only goal should be to eliminate the entire industry. Never mind that China and India are basing their dream of a higher living standard on coal.

Brune doesn’t want the US to force its coal industry to rapidly develop a technology that could be transferred to the developing world to allow them to use their coal more safely.

His problem seems to be that he believes that one dime spent on carbon capture is a dime not spent on renewable energy. $40 billion is spent in the US on pets each year. $20 billion in the US and EU is spent on cosmetic surgery. But not one dime of that money was taken from renewable energy development, no. The problem is carbon capture technology, and not one dime should be spent on that.

]]> By: jrandomluser http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/08/a-real-debate-mike-brune-v-clean-coal/#comment-69914 jrandomluser Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:40:11 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6294#comment-69914 Quoting from James Hansen's email "Tell Barack Obama the Truth, The Whole Truth" which I received Nov 21 2008 regarding climate change: "The only solution is to target a (large) portion of the fossil fuel reserves to be left in the ground or used in a way such that the CO2 can be captured and safely sequestered." It isn't just Hansen who calls for carbon capture. Some of the organizations in favour of the rapid deployment of carbon capture and storage are: the IPCC (IPCC Special Report on Carbon Capture and Storage), MIT (The Future of Coal), the UNDP (Avoiding dangerous climate change: strategies for mitigation), and the IAC (the InterAcademy Council, set up to represent every science academy in the world, who published "Lighting the Way". Incidentally the study panel that wrote this was co-chaired by Stephen Chu, Obama's DOE appointee). Quoting from James Hansen’s email “Tell Barack Obama the Truth, The Whole Truth” which I received Nov 21 2008 regarding climate change: “The only solution is to target a (large) portion of the fossil fuel reserves to be left in the ground or used in a way such that the CO2 can be captured and safely sequestered.”

It isn’t just Hansen who calls for carbon capture. Some of the organizations in favour of the rapid deployment of carbon capture and storage are: the IPCC (IPCC Special Report on Carbon Capture and Storage), MIT (The Future of Coal), the UNDP (Avoiding dangerous climate change: strategies for mitigation), and the IAC (the InterAcademy Council, set up to represent every science academy in the world, who published “Lighting the Way”. Incidentally the study panel that wrote this was co-chaired by Stephen Chu, Obama’s DOE appointee).

]]> By: J. http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/08/a-real-debate-mike-brune-v-clean-coal/#comment-68528 J. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:51:31 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6294#comment-68528 Delay is the new Deny. Delay is the new Deny.

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