From: John Fernbach
Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:18 PM
Subject: [Global Change: 2752] Re: Climate MAYDAY - Emergency -- As "Coal to
Liquid Fuel" Backers Move to Push for Production Simultaneously in China,
India and the USA
>
>This is not to mention the extra CO2 generation that is likely to attend
>any development >of a "coal to liquid fuel" industry, as I understand it.
>
>It seems as if supporters of continued fossil fuel reliance, and especially
>supporters of
<...>
John, we will be fossil fuel dependent for a long time, whether we support
it or not. That is my conclusion after doing the math in the "Al Gore"
thread and others. The notion that we can stop using fossil fuels within
the next decade is false.
Recognizing and accepting that fossil fuel use is inevitable is not exactly
the same as "support" for it. We can make big cuts, true, but total
emilimation is something for the distant future, maybe the latter half of
the Century, when we have more time to build out 2000 to 4000 nuclear plants
world-wide consistent with the IPCC emission stabilization scenarios, among
other things.
Therefore, the issues requiring the most immediate political action and
support are enacting carbon emission control laws and accelerated deployment
of CCS technology (and energy conservation, efficiency, and alternative
energy, of course).
If you want your representatives to vote against coal-to-liquid development
proposals, fine, but please ask them to support CCS development proposals
too.
-dl
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