Mineral dust sprinkled in oceans could absorb vast amounts of carbon
Note: Dangerous false solutions like geoengineering pose a massive risk to the planet. The risks associated with dumping minerals into the ocean – many of which would be unknown and untested – far...
View ArticleGeoengineering is a dangerous solution to climate change
Note: Rachel Smolker is co-director of Biofuelwatch, and long time friend and former staff at Global Justice Ecology Project. –The GJEP Team By Rachel Smolker, March 22 2013. Source: The Huffington...
View ArticleEnergy Secretary Ernest Moniz relies on dubious coal tech for Obama climate...
By Sharon Kelly, June 28, 2013. Source: DeSmog Blog The key takeaway from President Obama’s major climate change announcement this week was his intent to batten down on coal. But if history is any...
View ArticleU.S. not waging ‘war on coal’: Energy Secretary Moniz
Note: More disappointing news after last weeks revelation that Obama’s climate strategy wold rely heavily on ‘clean coal’ and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Obama’s Climate Action Plan is not...
View ArticleObama finds an unlikely ally in climate change battle: China
Note: Of course, by ‘unlikely ally’ we mean a crucial investor in new fracking wells, coal and gas exports, and dangerous, unproven false solutions like Carbon Capture and Storage. A joint climate...
View ArticleGeoengineering the sky is not ‘normal’
Note: Rachel Smolker is the co-Director of Biofuelwatch and a member of the Steering Committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. By Rachel Smolker, December 9, 2013. Source: Huffington Post In the wake...
View ArticleCan Kemper become the first US power plant to use ‘clean coal’?
Note: Another absurd detour on the road to a scorched and lifeless planet… -The GJEP Team Suzanne Goldenberg, March 12, 2014. Source: The Guardian The massive block of steel towers and pipes rises out...
View ArticleWorld’s biggest coal company, world’s biggest PR firm pair up to promote coal...
Note: Looks like Peabody coal is taking this one right out of the UN’s “Sustainable Energy For All” playbook. Pushing for more coal plants under the guise of reducing “energy poverty.” -The GJEP Team...
View ArticleCleaning dirty gas enabling CO2 sales to dirtier oil producers
Note: This sentence pretty much sums it all up: “He’s betting hydrocarbon consumers will increasingly opt to trap emissions from natural gas, if not to help the environment then to duck potential...
View ArticleLeaked IPCC climate plan to worsen global warming
By Nafeez Ahmed, April 7, 2014. Source: The Guardian A British environmental organisation that has reviewed the draft of a forthcoming UN IPCC report on mitigating climate change has questioned many of...
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