Comments on: CARMA 2.0 has arrived! Power sector still stuck on fossil fuel http://carma.org/blog/carma-20-has-arrived-power-sector-still-stuck-on-fossil-fuel/ What goes around comes around Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Charles Higley http://carma.org/blog/carma-20-has-arrived-power-sector-still-stuck-on-fossil-fuel/comment-page-1/#comment-1296 Charles Higley Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:44:28 +0000 http://carma.org/blog/?p=107#comment-1296 Since CO2 cannot and never has warmed the planet, I have to see your site as damaging to the environment. You are targeting misguided environmentalist and greedy politicians at companies and power sources we need very badly. Sure, clean up any heavy metals and other pollutants, but CO2 is plant food and we need the added productivity it will produce as we continue to cool for the next 20-30 years. We will warm again eventually, but not before you are gone. Since CO2 cannot and never has warmed the planet, I have to see your site as damaging to the environment. You are targeting misguided environmentalist and greedy politicians at companies and power sources we need very badly. Sure, clean up any heavy metals and other pollutants, but CO2 is plant food and we need the added productivity it will produce as we continue to cool for the next 20-30 years. We will warm again eventually, but not before you are gone.

]]> By: George Burch http://carma.org/blog/carma-20-has-arrived-power-sector-still-stuck-on-fossil-fuel/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 George Burch Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:50:58 +0000 http://carma.org/blog/?p=107#comment-1224 I have been lecturing/talking to various groups for many years on the impact of electricity generation on the environment. Most people have been surprised at what I have to tell them, many only see their little world and have no knowledge, or care, for the holistic view. Energy used to be part of environmental education, now no longer seriously taught in schools. There is an urgent need to change attitudes but, as I have discovered over the years the majority won't, because it interferes too much with their standard of living. The only way we can make an impact is to get back to teaching the subject at an early age in schools. Many of us, me included, are cynical when we hear our govenments talk about saving the planet by implimenting green initiatives. These are only designed to make money from the masses on the back of Climate Change, tjhis only puts people off. Politicians are only interested in saving their own skins and won't make any decisions that are likely to put the voters off. Most energy ministers haven't a clue about the subject and only think in sound bites that they think the voter wants to hear. Let's take politics out of the equation; let's start telling the truth about what can and cannot be achieved. No single agendas; let's have one professioonal body telling it as it is; let's start considering the big picture. The UK's carbon outpiut is said to be around 2% of global emissions, if we reduce this by 80% as the government says it will. The rest of the world's carbon emissions will fill the space. No change there then. The only way to reduce global emissions is for everyone to start reducing their outputs immediately, to replace fossil fuels with whatever is expedient to help arrest the present situation allowing us a breathing space. If carbon emissions were to stop tomorrow, it would take hundreds of years for the planet to stabilise. We, the population, have to stop abusing the electrical supply. The world will survive, I doubt the human race will. I have been lecturing/talking to various groups for many years on the impact of electricity generation on the environment. Most people have been surprised at what I have to tell them, many only see their little world and have no knowledge, or care, for the holistic view. Energy used to be part of environmental education, now no longer seriously taught in schools. There is an urgent need to change attitudes but, as I have discovered over the years the majority won’t, because it interferes too much with their standard of living. The only way we can make an impact is to get back to teaching the subject at an early age in schools.

Many of us, me included, are cynical when we hear our govenments talk about saving the planet by implimenting green initiatives. These are only designed to make money from the masses on the back of Climate Change, tjhis only puts people off.

Politicians are only interested in saving their own skins and won’t make any decisions that are likely to put the voters off. Most energy ministers haven’t a clue about the subject and only think in sound bites that they think the voter wants to hear. Let’s take politics out of the equation; let’s start telling the truth about what can and cannot be achieved. No single agendas; let’s have one professioonal body telling it as it is; let’s start considering the big picture.

The UK’s carbon outpiut is said to be around 2% of global emissions, if we reduce this by 80% as the government says it will. The rest of the world’s carbon emissions will fill the space. No change there then. The only way to reduce global emissions is for everyone to start reducing their outputs immediately, to replace fossil fuels with whatever is expedient to help arrest the present situation allowing us a breathing space.

If carbon emissions were to stop tomorrow, it would take hundreds of years for the planet to stabilise. We, the population, have to stop abusing the electrical supply. The world will survive, I doubt the human race will.

]]> By: Samuel K. Worlobah http://carma.org/blog/carma-20-has-arrived-power-sector-still-stuck-on-fossil-fuel/comment-page-1/#comment-1148 Samuel K. Worlobah Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:47:18 +0000 http://carma.org/blog/?p=107#comment-1148 I believe that we have already done more harm to our planet thae we can solve. Others called it an irrepairable harm. You see, some countries have become industrialized at the expense of our planet, and now they are asking that others reduce carbon emmittions. This will not work at all. I believe that we have already done more harm to our planet thae we can solve. Others called it an irrepairable harm. You see, some countries have become industrialized at the expense of our planet, and now they are asking that others reduce carbon emmittions. This will not work at all.

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