New study recommends no more fossil fuel plants after 2017

gerryh

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New fossil fuel plants post-2017 risk 2C warming limit

To avoid dangerous global warming, 2017 is the last year energy companies can build new coal, oil or gas-fired power plants.

That’s the unpalatable finding in a new study by Oxford researchers, killing any notion governments may have over the window of time they have left to act.

“For policy makers who think of climate change as a long-term future issue this should be a wake-up call,” said Cameron Hepburn, co-author of the study published in the journal Applied Energy.

All new energy infrastructure needs to be zero carbon from 2017, says the study, while existing power plants need to be retrofitted with technology to catch greenhouse gas emissions.

New fossil fuel plants post-2017 risk 2C warming limit | Climate Home - climate change news



Bullshyte. More Bullshyte predictions that won't even come close to coming true.

They have yet to have ANY prediction come true.
 

gerryh

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You're right.

They should have stopped production ten years ago.


Here, I'll put it in easier language for you. You should stop posting this crap. Stop spreading the lies. Those that keep predicting dire consequences if we don't stop, have not had a single one of their predictions come true yet. It's just fear mongering on their part and all you are doing is spreading that fear and the lies.
 

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The ash left behind is acidic so there are few places to get rid of it, that doesn't mean impossible. If it acts like volcanic ash it is actually a good soil conditioner in moderation. (ie 'rock dust')
The CO2 has plants to equalize that output so the emissions should be sent through a green house and the O2 leaving the place would be money in the bank.

Coal could be used in places like Flint to filter the potable water at the user's location if it acts like charcoal in home aquariums. The plants would not have to be shut down and product production at the mines would just about double if that was a standard plumbing features in the future. Synrude sand might have a similar use.
 

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Apparently, there is a very keen interest in this thread that you have conveniently overlooked.

Absolutely, if the guy who started it is a masochist.

Here, I'll put it in easier language for you. You should stop posting this crap. Stop spreading the lies. Those that keep predicting dire consequences if we don't stop, have not had a single one of their predictions come true yet. It's just fear mongering on their part and all you are doing is spreading that fear and the lies.

Flossy made me hate the environment even more than I did before.
 

mentalfloss

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Here, I'll put it in easier language for you. You should stop posting this crap. Stop spreading the lies. Those that keep predicting dire consequences if we don't stop, have not had a single one of their predictions come true yet. It's just fear mongering on their part and all you are doing is spreading that fear and the lies.

You're confusing global warming with terrorism.

The ladder is fear mongering, the former is not.
 

Nick Danger

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. . . or climbing an unsteady one.

I think that's what worries me most, that we will pass some point of no return while we bicker the right and wrong of burning fossil fuels. It's also a bone of contention that for the most part, the default position of those in favour of the status quo is to attack and ridicule anyone who suggests we actually do something to reduce fossil fuel consumption, because any steps that would have any measure of effectiveness are either expensive or inconvenient. Are we leaving a mess behind for our descendants that they won't be able to fix?
 

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It's also a bone of contention that for the most part, the default position of those in favour of the status quo is to attack and ridicule anyone who suggests we actually do something to reduce fossil fuel consumption, because any steps that would have any measure of effectiveness are either expensive or inconvenient.

Quite the contrary actually. The ridicule has to do with the abject hypocrisy of those that demand that something be done ~ just as long as it's not them doing it

Are we leaving a mess behind for our descendants that they won't be able to fix?

Are you, or those that have this fear, concerned enough to actually alter your/their behaviors?

... Yeah, thought not

Just one more good reason to ban ladders.

It pains me that no one thinks of the children on this.
 

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Quite the contrary actually. The ridicule has to do with the abject hypocrisy of those that demand that something be done ~ just as long as it's not them doing it



Are you, or those that have this fear, concerned enough to actually alter your/their behaviors?

... Yeah, thought not



It pains me that no one thinks of the children on this.
It takes a village to keep a child safe from a ladder.