Thursday, October 11, 2012

Carbon capture: 130 plants needed 'to avoid dangerous climate change' | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Report by CCS group says huge investment needed by 2020
• Fears that UK will miss out on EU cash pot for CCS projects
Barack Obama's Record On Addressing Climate Change In First Term Under Scrutiny By Activists
"I plead guilty to tunnel vision around climate," McKibben said. "It's the biggest issue the planet has ever faced, and in 50 years the one thing we will be interested in knowing is how our leaders responded to it -- or didn't. I mean, the Arctic broke this summer, and we had the hottest month in American history," he added. "So it's perhaps just possible the Obama administration hasn't done quite enough."
The Phoenix | Students, Professors Examine Climate Change At Tuft University Conference
“I haven’t experienced such a dangerous time since the nuclear arms race in the late 1950s,” said Peace and Conflict Studies Professor George Lakey.
He was speaking about the precarious state of the Earth’s climate and he’s hardly the first or only person to suggest a need for alarm.
Insurer: Hey, these climate-related disasters are getting expensive | Grist
There is no industry less enthusiastic about climate change than the insurance industry

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