Energy and Climate Change

Reports that the effects of global warming may be felt by the average person quicker and deeper than previously thought were reflected in a flurry of news coverage over the past week.

American Electric Power, a major electric utility, is planning the largest demonstration yet of capturing carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power plant and pumping it deep underground.

An accelerated phaseout of the refrigerant could speed up by five years the healing of the ozone layer of the atmosphere.

A new MIT report says that much more effort is needed to develop and test technology that will make clean-coal power plants economical and practical.

To halt catastrophic climate change, the US has less than a decade learn how to capture and store carbon dioxide.

Fish and Wildlife director H. Dale Hale said this was not an attempt to censor scientists, though the travel memos specifically require that the traveler "understands the administration’s position on climate change, polar bears, and sea ice and will not be speaking on or responding to these issues."

Not only is the Townsend School the first facility under Fuels For Schools
and Beyond to receive CO2 emission offset replacement grant money, but it
is also the first school district that will burn wood pellets in its new
biomass heating system. Over the 30-year life of the system, savings are expected to
exceed $1 million.

It’s relatively inexpensive, plentiful, environmentally friendly to the extreme, and it may just be the key to staving off a potential energy crisis.

We need kids who want to be scientists and change the world, he said. "Without teachers who energize children, we’re going to lose this battle."

This is our future – famous cities are submerged, a third of the world is desert, the rest struggling for food and fresh water. Richard Girling investigates the reality behind the science of climate change