<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for New York attorney general subpoenas energy companies over disclosure of coal-plant risks]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by rmcconne http://www.grist.org/article/cuomo-arigato/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:20:52 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/cuomo-arigato/1 Coal sequestration

Coal sequestration is a red herring anyway. According to the US DoE, identified sequestration sites could accommodate at most 600 million tons of CO2 annually, even if it were economic, which it's not. That's only a small fraction of the US emissions.

Bob McConnell

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Coal sequestration is a red herring anyway. According to the US DoE, identified sequestration sites could accommodate at most 600 million tons of CO2 annually, even if it were economic, which it's not. That's only a small fraction of the US emissions.

Bob McConnell

]]> Comment #2 by Pangolin http://www.grist.org/article/cuomo-arigato/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:25:30 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/cuomo-arigato/2 Coal Executives: Soon to be hunted criminals.

If you start thinking about what the potential implications of an arctic ocean without sea ice on the weather are it is  truly terrifying. There is more carbon  stored  in Siberian and Canadian permafrost  than all the coal and oil burned to date. Should that permafrost melt much of it will enter the atmosphere in the form of methane, a greenhouse gas ten times as potent as CO2.

We are already locked into this cycle. Nobody and/or nothing we are going to do is going to stop it. We would have to convert the entire worlds economy into a carbon-negative profile in 20 years or less. It simply is not going to happen.

So when the first 2 or 3 million Indians, Africans, Chinese and Bangladeshis die due to climate crisis people are going to start looking for somebody to blame. Who is easier to blame for this than the people who were paid millions of dollars of years to pollute the atmosphere. Coal Executives.

If the weather extremes happen and Greenland turns into a large pasture the coal executives are toast.

Put the Carbon Back

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If you start thinking about what the potential implications of an arctic ocean without sea ice on the weather are it is  truly terrifying. There is more carbon  stored  in Siberian and Canadian permafrost  than all the coal and oil burned to date. Should that permafrost melt much of it will enter the atmosphere in the form of methane, a greenhouse gas ten times as potent as CO2.

We are already locked into this cycle. Nobody and/or nothing we are going to do is going to stop it. We would have to convert the entire worlds economy into a carbon-negative profile in 20 years or less. It simply is not going to happen.

So when the first 2 or 3 million Indians, Africans, Chinese and Bangladeshis die due to climate crisis people are going to start looking for somebody to blame. Who is easier to blame for this than the people who were paid millions of dollars of years to pollute the atmosphere. Coal Executives.

If the weather extremes happen and Greenland turns into a large pasture the coal executives are toast.

Put the Carbon Back

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