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...California, the bill is another step toward an ambitious commitment to drastically cut its emissions of atmosphere-warming greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, which are released whenever fossil fuels are burned. In September, the state passed legislation calling on California to reduce its total emissions by a whopping 25 percent by 2020. The San Francisco Chronicle posited that the pledge “could lead to a dizzying array of changes in industry and elsewhere,” suggesting that “state regulators could require more public transportation, more densely built housing, a major new investment in projects...
...brainer, but it’s only a small step toward curbing global warming. Lighting only comprises 9 percent of U.S. residential energy usage, and residential usage makes up only about one-fifth of all energy usage in the U.S. It will take more reductions in fossil fuel-supplied energy usage before our carbon dioxide emissions will see any real change. It will require culture-changing sacrifices of the magnitude that the Chronicle predicts...
...Climate Change, Sir Nicholas Stern and Al Gore. Although the pendulum of public opinion has swung swiftly and mercilessly away from them, the doubters provide a vital service. They keep the scientists and politicians in check, and are first to smack down the loons who want to shut down fossil-fuel industries. In Australia, the dynamic in grass-roots politics and public policy is toward immediate action. A joint government-business Task Group on Emissions Trading last week said "the warning signs cannot be ignored." "While debate continues about the precise scale, consequences and costs of climate change...
...Electricity is produced An alternative energy supplier, such as a solar plant, above, or wind farm, generates several dozen megawatts of electricity. Unlike power from fossil fuels, this type of energy produces little to no carbon...
...chief of the world’s largest oil company predicted an increasing dependence on fossil fuels despite the emergence of alternative energy sources in a talk yesterday sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment. At the standing-room only event, Abdallah S. Jum’ah, the president and CEO of oil producer Saudi Aramco, attributed this growing demand for oil to the rising global population and better living standards in the developing world. “Over the next several decades, we must substantially increase the amount of energy available to consumers around the world...