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Low-energy urbanisation 'can help climate goals'
BBC ^ | Mark Kinver

Posted on 01/13/2015 9:08:19 AM PST by BenLurkin

The team found that the mitigation potential of urban areas on a global scale was "insufficiently understood", making it difficult to quantify what energy savings could be made through more effective planning and development.

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The dataset allowed the researchers to identify different profiles of energy use by cities, which could then shape climate mitigation policies for urban areas that fitted a particular energy-use profile.

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"We looked at factors including population density and fuel prices. We found that - especially in those regions that are urbanising quickly: Asia, Africa and the Middle East - if there are higher fuel prices and good urban planning then there could be about a 25% energy saving from the business-as-usual scenario."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: energy

1 posted on 01/13/2015 9:08:19 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Does that mean that we can turn off the heat and electricity to the ghettos?


2 posted on 01/13/2015 9:09:27 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Everyone gets a “smart” thermostat. The government will decide how warm your 800 square foot apartment can be — and will set the heat for you.


3 posted on 01/13/2015 9:12:29 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Ah yes! A return to the good old days!


4 posted on 01/13/2015 9:17:08 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: BenLurkin

Perhaps the biggest fraud in global history.

Madoff would approve.

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3245193%2C18


5 posted on 01/13/2015 9:21:53 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: BenLurkin

Environmentally friendly ‘people’s tubes’ with integrated feeding and waste hoses, and a conveniently located view screen so heroic state songs and important messages can be watched in the prone position. And when you die, they just cart the whole thing off for ‘recycling’.


6 posted on 01/13/2015 9:22:36 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: BenLurkin

The North Koreans have solved this problem.

7 posted on 01/13/2015 9:23:59 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin


Also, everyone will go to "carousel" when they are 35.

Seriously, these people read "Logan's Run" as the second instruction manual after "1984."
8 posted on 01/13/2015 9:29:17 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: BenLurkin

I just wish I was smart enough to know what the average temperature of the earth should be. And how in the Hell did George Bush cause the end of the last Ice Age and catapult us into this burning world.


9 posted on 01/13/2015 9:31:54 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: BenLurkin

Will these people ever understand what weather is & how we the people do not control it? It’s a good thing we cannot & I’m certain God planned it that way.


10 posted on 01/13/2015 9:38:33 AM PST by oldtech
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To: BenLurkin

Herd the sheeple into their corrals....I mean cities


11 posted on 01/13/2015 9:39:47 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Jewbacca

At least Logan’s Run had hot chicks. Imagine if they had feminists instead!


12 posted on 01/13/2015 9:46:40 AM PST by gr8eman (Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
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To: BenLurkin

Now all you little robots do exactly what the wise overlords with an urban planning degree say.


13 posted on 01/13/2015 10:07:39 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: BenLurkin

Or, to use leftist language, fixing the climate on the backs of the poor.


14 posted on 01/13/2015 11:30:34 AM PST by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: gr8eman

They also got to live in a shopping mall. Our prospective overlords would probably tend more toward East German apartment blocks for us.


15 posted on 01/13/2015 1:14:56 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: BenLurkin

Best I can tell the climate goals all involve growing government in a way consistent with the Marxist agenda.


16 posted on 01/13/2015 6:23:03 PM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: BenLurkin

No serious person still believes the climate change hoax.


17 posted on 01/13/2015 6:31:53 PM PST by SUSSA
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To: BenLurkin

"Please sir, how may I reduce my carbon footprint?"
18 posted on 01/13/2015 6:33:50 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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