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Posted: Mon 19:40, 02 Sep 2013 Post subject: Green shoots are growing in oil-spun2 |
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Green shoots are growing in oil,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
This past year, officials surrendered to some revolt by scientists over tries to purge all mention of global warming and sea level rise from the set of environmental surroundings of Galveston Bay. And criticism from climate specialists, North and Nielsen-Gammon among them, resulted in the 2012 State Water Plan including mentions of "potential" climate impacts,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], albeit being an "ambiguous" risk. Among the contributors, Jennifer Walker of the Sierra Club environmental organisation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], describes even this small victory as a "major breakthrough".
Texas's second city,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], San Antonio, has embraced the brand new energy economy and it is reinventing itself as the Silicon Valley of renewables. The local utility company CPS Energy has installed wind turbines with a total capacity of 1000 megawatts and it has just issued contracts for 400 megawatts of solar installations. To the delight of environmental campaigners, it is retiring a 871-megawatt coal-fired power plant. San Antonio is well on course to generate 20per cent of its power from renewable sources by 2020, a target the Eu is struggling to meet.
One thing which i like about Texas wind - it's subsidized at a lower rate than that in Germany or Canada,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or any other place I've looked at. Still big though. (US subsidies mostly occur at the corporate tax level, and therefore are mind bogglingly complicated, to ensure that no one can determine the expense.)
To actually lower our carbon footprint, it seems sensible to do it as fast and cheaply as possible.
The USA has dropped its carbon emissions this year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because of gas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], enraging the purists to the point of publishing articles such as the one in NewScientist recently.(long URL - click the link)
Wouldso would global emissions decrease when the US left their coal in the earth and the Asians found it elsewhere? Foreign coal has similar emission profiles to domestic.
Unless something changes, every extractable molecule of hydrocarbon in the world will eventually be burnt. It will likely be a race to see if we go extinct due to global warming or due to the reduced % of oxygen in the air. I understand,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], burning all currently known reserves won't create a dent in the oxygen partial pressure up, but what if we wind up burning all of the methyl hydrate ices at the end of the ocean before ocean warming releases them to be oxidized naturally (with even greater greenhouse effect)?
Ultimately, the result of our brief time on this planet might appear as a smallish blip within the bacterial life of the earth as micro-organisms evolve to consider advantage of the environment we've made unusable for ourselves.
It seems we share the common sign of all life from slime mould towards the great whales. left to its own devices,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], each species appears to always expand its numbers until it's consumed all of the resources open to it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it dies out leaving the area to other species which could survive its effluent
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