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Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them, says James Hansen
Added 17-2-2009
The (UK) government is expected to give the go-ahead to the coal-burning Kingsnorth power plant. Here, one of the world's foremost climate experts launches an excoriating attack on Britain's long love affair with the most polluting fossil fuel of all
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David Pratt, co-author of Climate Code Red, comments on bushfires and climate change
Added 10-2-2009
We might face such horrific events as Feb 7 more often, according to our research (see People, Property and Places, pages 101 - 124 elsewhere on this website). David Pratt adds to the discussion in this piece.
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CPRS? 5%? tCERs! These are not expletives, but designing an effective carbon might drive you to expletives.
Added 6-2-2009
While our CPRS is still in the design phase, we need the broadest particpation in the discussion to see if we can develop a scheme that does what we need. This article, lifted from The Guardian, suggests some fundamental flaws in the way the market is framing C trading
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Has our heat wave confirmed climate change? NO – but confirmation is not the point.
Added 3-2-2009
Weather isn’t climate, but as climate changes, the incidence of extreme weather events increases. So confirmation? No! Correlation? Yes! Read this full article discussing the recent heat wave within the context of climate change.
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350 is the wrong target: put the science first
Added 23-1-2009
David Spratt, a co-author of Climate Code Red, says that we should aim for the CO2 concentration that we need, not the one that we might, just might, be able to get.
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