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 Stories About: climate AND coal AND energy AND greenhouse-gas emissions AND James Hansen AND oil
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More of NASA's James Hansen on Old King Coal
How coal CO2 is different from oil CO2 |
Joseph Romm |
24 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Our top climate scientist has sent out a really, really long email (where does he find the time?), mostly discussing comments on his recent essay on coal. I think Hansen is the clearest thinker on climate among the top scientists in the field, so I will reprint the email, breaking it up into several postings. The first one addresses "Coal-CO2 versus Oil-CO2": My statement that releasing a coal-CO2 molecule into the air is more harmful than setting ... |
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| Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen, oil (all these topics) |
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Peak oil and climate change
New Hansen paper |
John McGrath |
22 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Today the Oil Drum linked to a James Hansen released paper analyzing the impact of peak oil, peak gas, and peak coal on the likely emissions of carbon. Hansen notes that most of our emissions scenarios have thus far failed to account for whether the carbon will even be there to burn. Plenty of graphy goodness, but what I took away was this: There's just enough oil and gas left in the ground to take us up to, or maybe a bit over, the 450 parts per million of CO2 that ... |
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| Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen, natural gas, oil (all these topics) |
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