MichaelLWagner
11-01-2009, 06:43 PM
"... that plan unleashed a lobbying free-for-all that led politicians to dole out favors to various industries, undermining the environmental goals."
"Four years later, it is becoming clear that system has so far produced little noticeable benefit to the climate — but generated a multibillion-dollar windfall for some of the Continent’s biggest polluters."
+ Money and Lobbyists Hurt European Efforts to Curb Gases / NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/worldbusiness/11carbon.html?_r=1
"Projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimate the scale and rapidity of climate change, warned a Stanford University scientist ..."
"... industrial emissions are well out-pacing even the most aggressive forecasts ... ... the IPCC's 2007 climate assessment failed to account for potentially devastating feedback cycles that could be triggered by rising temperatures, including large-scale ignition of tropical forests and catastrophic melting of Arctic tundra ..."
+ Burning rainforests, melting Tundra could accelerate global warming well beyond current projections / mongabay.com
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0216-climate.html
"... the Chinese fires alone consume 120 million tons of coal annually. That's almost as much as the annual coal production in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois combined."
"The Chinese fires also make a big, hidden contribution to global warming through the greenhouse effect, scientists said. Each year they release 360 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as much as all the cars and light trucks in the United States."
+ Underground coal fires called a 'catastrophe' / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030215coalenviro4p4.asp
Colossal Magnetic Levitation Wind Turbine = Permanent Magnets = 20% more power + 50% less cost = low-center-of-gravity = perfect for offshore = areas surrounding the US = 24/7 = US Dept. of Energy states could meet current demand!!!
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/26/super-powered-magnetic-wind-turbine-maglev/
"Four years later, it is becoming clear that system has so far produced little noticeable benefit to the climate — but generated a multibillion-dollar windfall for some of the Continent’s biggest polluters."
+ Money and Lobbyists Hurt European Efforts to Curb Gases / NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/worldbusiness/11carbon.html?_r=1
"Projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimate the scale and rapidity of climate change, warned a Stanford University scientist ..."
"... industrial emissions are well out-pacing even the most aggressive forecasts ... ... the IPCC's 2007 climate assessment failed to account for potentially devastating feedback cycles that could be triggered by rising temperatures, including large-scale ignition of tropical forests and catastrophic melting of Arctic tundra ..."
+ Burning rainforests, melting Tundra could accelerate global warming well beyond current projections / mongabay.com
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0216-climate.html
"... the Chinese fires alone consume 120 million tons of coal annually. That's almost as much as the annual coal production in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois combined."
"The Chinese fires also make a big, hidden contribution to global warming through the greenhouse effect, scientists said. Each year they release 360 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as much as all the cars and light trucks in the United States."
+ Underground coal fires called a 'catastrophe' / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030215coalenviro4p4.asp
Colossal Magnetic Levitation Wind Turbine = Permanent Magnets = 20% more power + 50% less cost = low-center-of-gravity = perfect for offshore = areas surrounding the US = 24/7 = US Dept. of Energy states could meet current demand!!!
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/26/super-powered-magnetic-wind-turbine-maglev/