Posted on 07/23/2008 8:58:33 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day, says the Heartland Institute.
While some see the scrubber as an efficient and economical way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, many environmentalists oppose the technology because it allows people to use fossil fuels and emit carbon in the first place.
According to Columbia University physicist Klaus Lackner, who is leading the research team:
Producing a large number of CO2 scrubbers can keep to a minimum any rise in atmospheric CO2 without the economically painful elimination of inexpensive energy sources. This technology would allow people to use fossil fuels, which they will be using anyway, without destroying the planet. Environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace have consistently opposed similar technologies, such as carbon capture and sequestration, because they do not address what they see as the root of the problem, says the Heartland Institute.
"This is just one more piece of evidence that environmentalists aren't concerned about solving a problem," said Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis. "Every problem, as they see it, is one way to restrict people's lifestyles, and if you come up with a technological fix that can solve a problem but doesn't require sacrifice and lets us go about our business the way we were before, they're not happy about it, even if it solves the problem."
Source: Krystle Russin, "Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea," Heartland Institute, August 1, 2008.
For text:
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=23547
For more on Global Warming Impacts and Responses:
http://eteam.ncpa.org/issues/?c=impacts-and-responses
For more on Global Warming:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=32
Ya mean the environmentalist are against trees?
Just more proof that environmetalisim is a mental disorder!
The Creator has already done that, they are called trees.
“While some see the scrubber as an efficient and economical way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, many environmentalists oppose the technology because it allows people to use fossil fuels and emit carbon in the first place.”
The continued lunacy of the left is laughable.
Environmentalists are truly out of their minds.
But this finally shows what they want to happen. They want us to completely stop burning fossil fuels.
These a$$hats are going to end up messing up the CO2 levels such that the trees/plants will start dying and then we’ll really be in a pickle!
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Kool Aid drinking watermelon Gorons who worship at the feet of the Goracle..
Eventually, these people always expose their true goal, which is promoting Communism, not “saving the planet”.
These eco-traitors hate hydroelectric dams too. You could never build the Hoover Dam or the TVA today. And AlGore gets his electric from the TVA
This is so stupid; in any other era, it would be laughable.
But that’s the way the green weenies are. We had a deer overpopulation in Brown County State Park a few years ago; seems all the natural predators were gone and the deer were starving because there were too many of them. So the Indiana DNR had a controlled hunt in the park to cull the herd. Oh how the greenies pi$$ed and moaned!
Their solution? You’re gonna love this....
NORPLANT! Yep, they wanted to catch the does, and give them Norplant as a form of birth control! You just gotta shake your head....
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It's worse than that.
They want us to completely stop! burning fossil fuels.
The problem for self described “environmentalists” is other people’s prosperity, not carbon. Carbon is a pretext.
Environmentalists want to stamp out carbon emissions, but they don’t want to reduce carbon emissions?
These nutcases are beyond reason AND NEED TO BE TOLD TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP!
We need a watermelon ping list.
Agree about the unintended consequences of “scrubbing” CO2, since we really don’t know if we are causing it, or if God is causing it.
I see it as food for the homeless.
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