Comments on: Readers – Tell us your thoughts on CO2 goals http://www.greenbang.com/tell-us-what-you-think-about-carbon-reduction-goals_12704.html Sustainable Energy Insight Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Allen http://www.greenbang.com/tell-us-what-you-think-about-carbon-reduction-goals_12704.html/comment-page-1#comment-10599 David Allen Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:04:49 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=12704#comment-10599 The sad fact is we may be past the tipping point. Cutting carbon emissions seems like a hopeless and impossible task. Consider this: China and India are building coal-fired steam electricity plants like there is no tomorrow. Texas Utilities, in the Great State, are building a half-dozen or so COASL-FIRED steam generating plants. WHY? Texas is loaded with natural gas. Why doon't they use that? With examples like the above we will never lower carbon emissions. Now, the lobbyists for big coal and big oil are trumpeting global "cooling". Lotsa luck. Glaciers have been shrinking here in Western Washington since I was a kid. I'll be 81 next summer.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('10599','David Allen'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('10599','David Allen','The sad fact is we may be past the tipping point. Cutting carbon emissions seems like a hopeless and impossible task.\r\n\r\nConsider this: China and India are building coal-fired steam electricity plants like there is no tomorrow. Texas Utilities, in the Great State, are building a half-dozen or so COASL-FIRED steam generating plants. WHY? Texas is loaded with natural gas. Why doon\'t they use that?\r\n\r\nWith examples like the above we will never lower carbon emissions. Now, the lobbyists for big coal and big oil are trumpeting global \"cooling\". Lotsa luck. Glaciers have been shrinking here in Western Washington since I was a kid. I\'ll be 81 next summer.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> The sad fact is we may be past the tipping point. Cutting carbon emissions seems like a hopeless and impossible task.

Consider this: China and India are building coal-fired steam electricity plants like there is no tomorrow. Texas Utilities, in the Great State, are building a half-dozen or so COASL-FIRED steam generating plants. WHY? Texas is loaded with natural gas. Why doon’t they use that?

With examples like the above we will never lower carbon emissions. Now, the lobbyists for big coal and big oil are trumpeting global “cooling”. Lotsa luck. Glaciers have been shrinking here in Western Washington since I was a kid. I’ll be 81 next summer.

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