Jul 25 2007
NASA’s Hansen on Live Earth, Gore, and Coal
From Climate Progress quoting James Hansen (emphasis mine):
The point I made with the audience is the overwhelming importance of a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants. Without that, the “101 things” that citizens can do to reduce their emissions do not amount to a hill of beans; all savings of emissions would be blown away by a utility building a new coal-fired power plant. Conversely, a successful moratorium is the main action needed to achieve a stabilization of climate.
A fundamental issue arose, because the “Live Earth” pledge had a waffle-worded statement about coal plants, which implied new coal-fired power plants were o.k. if it was claimed that sometime in the future they would be fitted out for carbon capture and sequestration [”To fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store the CO2“]. Gore’s people confirmed that this was the intended statement of their “energy experts”. When I explained the distinction to Al Gore, he immediately agreed that, by a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants, he meant the same thing that I did: a real moratorium. This is a case where such leadership is essential.
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