Industry Plan to Save Us From Global Warming a Nightmare, Not a Dream | Truthout
By ignoring global warming, the U.S. is painting itself (and the world) into a corner. But now the fossil fuel industry has prepared an escape for us. You may not have heard of it, but the escape is called "carbon capture and storage" or CCS for short. It has never been tried on anything like the scale needed to limit global warming, so it's a colossal experiment with the future of civilization at stake. More on that in a moment, but first let's look at the corner we're in:
The chief economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA) recently said,
"The world is perfectly on track to 11 degrees Fahrenheit increase in temperature, which is very bad news. And everybody, even school children, [but not weiny-heads] know this will have catastrophic implications for all of us."
We face unprecedented tornadoes like the one that ripped away much of Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011.
Parts of our Southwest (and Mexico) are now dryer than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, with irregular snow pack in the Rockies disrupting water supplies and reducing crop yields. By all accounts, the future of water in the Southwest is grim.
Drought-induced insect infestations are destroying forests across the western states and mega-wildfires are increasing on every continent except Antarctica.
Record floods disrupted the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys during 2011, not to mention Biblical floods in Australia, India and Pakistan where tens of millions of people were displaced.
And we're just in the early stages of climate chaos. As the song says, "You ain't seen nothing yet."
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Don't know the details, but there are some SANE countries with serious energy programs...like Germany...and some Scandinavian countries?