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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Hope in the fight against climate change...

    Is it just me or have you also noticed that the weather is going schizo.  95 degree's in May in Michigan, I remember when we still could have snow on the ground during the last weeks of May.

    Now I don't know where you stand on climate change, but you gotta admit with tornado season seemingly turning into a year round event that something is changing.  It seems to me that there are two schools of thought on this 1. It is real or 2. it's not real, merely a cyclic event that the Earth does from time to time.

    I'll play devils advocate and say ok, it's not real.  I think that we can all acknowledge the fact that CO2 is building up in the atmosphere at greater levels then we've ever seen before.  Let's just say man has nothing to do with it, it's still happening.  Wouldn't it be wise to adopt a proactive stance in curbing the CO2 just the same?

    Now let's not be total morons for two minutes.  We have been actively monitoring CO2 emissions since the sixties.  Not to mention the information we have from drill samples from Antarctica.  Fact CO2 levels correlate with temperatures.  As CO2 levels spike and drop, so do the temperatures on Earth.

    The clean coal ad's you see on TV in this country are a joke.  The Coal industry in this country hasn't built a singe REAL Carbon capture and storage facility yet.  However it's not all bad new's, Europe and Australia are looking at investing heavily on this Technology.  WWF [World Resources Institute] along with several petroleum giants are preparing to build the largest CCS [Carbon Capture and Storage] facility in the world in Australia, so keep your fingers crossed.   There may be hope for us yet.
AMF...

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