Upgrade coal power and cut 15% of emissions. Where is the Green applause? « JoNova

If the Greens cared about CO2 they’d be very interested in ways to reduce emissions. But their selective interest speaks volumes about their real priorities. Anton Lang shows how newer coal fired powers stations run hotter and at higher pressures, and use 15% less coal to produce the same amount of electricity. We could upgrade our power stations and cut a whopping 15% of their emissions — which is huge compared to the piddling small, often unmeasureable savings thanks to renewables. Even massive floods that stop industry don’t reduce our emissions as much as this would. Do the Greens hate the coal industry more than “carbon pollution”? — Jo

“It is not science if it is established by consensus” | Planet3.0

[Rush Limbaugh] It specifically is not science if it is established by consensus. Science is not subject to opinion. And this is the problem with global warming.

UPDATE 1: Vattenfall expects CO2 costs to double in 2013 - News - Point Carbon

LONDON, March 26 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Vattenfall expects its compliance costs under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to reach at least 8 billion Swedish crowns ($1.2 billion) in 2013, the energy company said Tuesday, double last year’s figure after a rule change phasing out free CO2 permits.

Top activist says environmental movement is failing | The Daily Caller

In advance of a talk at the University of Louisville, CBS News environmental contributor and lead scientist at the Nature Conservancy M. Sanjayan told the Courier-Journal that the environmental movement was failing.

“On virtually every measure, the environmental movement is not keeping up with the needs at hand,” Sanjayan told the Journal.

“Species extinction, deforestation, climate change — we are playing and have been for two decades a rear-guard action,” Sanjayan added. “We are slowing the decline, perhaps, but not nearly enough. We don’t have a movement. We have a niche. It’s mostly mono-chromatic in culture, in political belief, and in socioeconomic status.”