Posted on 09/14/2006 11:06:10 PM PDT by calcowgirl
SACRAMENTO — In the Rocky Mountain States and the fast-growing desert Southwest, more than 20 power plants, designed to burn coal that is plentiful and cheap, are on the drawing boards. Much of the power, their owners expected, would be destined for the people of California.
But such plants would also be among the country’s most potent producers of carbon dioxide, the king of gases linked to global warming. So California has just delivered a new message to these energy suppliers: If you cannot produce power with the lowest possible emissions of these greenhouse gases, we are not interested.
California’s decision to impose stringent demands on suppliers even outside its borders, broadened by the Legislature on Aug. 31 and awaiting the governor’s signature, is but one example of the state’s wide-ranging effort to remake its energy future.
The Democratic-controlled legislature and the Republican governor also agreed at that time on legislation to reduce industrial carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent by 2020, a measure that affects not only power plants but also other large producers of carbon dioxide, including oil refineries and cement plants.
The state’s aim is to reduce emissions of climate-changing gases produced by burning coal, oil and gas. Other states, particularly New York, are moving in some of the same directions, but no state is moving as aggressively on as many fronts. No state has been at it longer. No state is putting more at risk.
... At best, business leaders asked in a legislative hearing, what difference could California’s cuts make? And at what cost?
California, in fact, is making a huge bet: that it can reduce emissions without wrecking its economy, and therefore inspire other states — and countries — to follow its example on slowing climate change.
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As usual, the "King of Greenhouse Gases" is a pale fraud. H2O is and always will be the most common and important Greenhouse Gas. If the evironmentalists can figure out a way of removing water from the atmosphere, then you might have something.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
So, does that mean that the new push for hydrogen fuel vehicles, touted as emitting only "water vapor," will be contributing more to global warming?
California, thanks to the libs and Arnold (who now seems more interested in reelection than doing what's right for the state or the people), is committing enviro-econocide. It's time for me to move.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
I didn't expect Arnold to become a lib before his next election so things are going into the crapper faster than I thought they might.
Of course. And every human breath and flatulence contributes to 3 different greenhouse gases. But if absurdity were greenhouse gas, we would be reaching saturation point right about now, thanks to our EcoTechnocrat Authoritarian friends.
WRONG!
Water vapor is the the major "greenhouse gas" and the one that absorbs the most heat. Carbon dioxide can't even come close.
These so-called journalists use each other as sources and they almost always get that fact wrong.
But then, it's really hard to make water vapor the "bad guy" so they avoid mentioning it.
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