Yesterday was a momentous one for the climate movement in the US. Over 2,500 clean energy activists came to Washington DC to participate in the largest act of civil disobedience on global warming in American history. Former coal miners, ministers, mothers and students - all members of Capitol Climate Action - successfully shut all five entrances to the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant, which is used to heat and cool the Capitol building, for over four hours.
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2 February 2009 at 1:57pm -
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We need to cut emissions from coal power plants and from aviation
You may have seen an article in the Observer citing James Hansen, the
head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, arguing that when it comes
to climate change, aviation is not a danger. We have worked closely with James
in the past - in particular he gave evidence at the trial of the Kingsnorth 6,
securing their acquittal on the grounds that more coal-fired power stations
would be a climate disaster. We agree with him that coal is the critical issue
for addressing global climate change - but we also believe that addressing the
special circumstances around aviation expansion in the UK is of vital
importance.
If you don't want to read through the whole thing, here are the summary facts (known, as Hansen writes, "by the UK government, by the utility
EON, by the fossil fuel industry, and by the defendants at the time of
their actions in 2007"):
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20 June 2008 at 11:16am -
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The folks behind the 350 campaign have just launched a brand new
website: 350.org with an amazing video that spells out what 350 parts per
million is about in 90 seconds without using a single word.
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12 February 2008 at 10:09am -
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Jubilant climbers on top of the chimney at Kingsnorth power station in October
I've been so busy with the launch of EfficienCity (our blueprint for a climate-friendly town) that I haven't had a chance to update you on all the goings on in our coal campaign since we delivered our alternative energy speech at the government / industry shindig last Wednesday.
On Friday morning, listeners of Radio 4's Today programme heard a withering attack on the proposed new coal plant at Kingsnorth from top Nasa scientist (and the world's most
eminent climate scientist) James Hansen. The plans for the UK's first new coal plant in 30 years were, he said, a "terrible idea" which “will destroy the efforts of
millions of citizens to reduce their carbon emissions”.
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19 December 2007 at 12:05pm -
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A couple of days ago, I wrote that leading climate scientist and director of Nasa's Goddard Institute James Hansen was planning to write to Gordon Brown, urging him to stop the new coal rush in the UK.
Here's the full text of that letter. It's powerful stuff, and piles the pressure onto Gordon Brown ahead of next month's decision by Medway Council, on whether to allow the first new coal plant in 30 years to be built at Kingsnorth.
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17 December 2007 at 3:02pm -
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that building a load of new coal power plants probably isn't the brightest idea for the future of our planet, but it's nice when a rocket scientist comes out and says it.
The director of Nasa's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, Dr. James Hansen, has joined the debate on the UK's the new coal rush, and is writing to Gordon Brown to urge him to block plans to
build up to eight new coal-fired power stations.
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