Energy Agency Warns Governments to Take Action Against Global Warming

[Dover]

Source: WSJ

LONDON—Dangerous climate change will be essentially irreversible within a little over five years, the International Energy Agency said in an annual report urging governments to do what they can to prevent this outcome.

To prevent long-term average global temperatures rising more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels—seen as the maximum possible increase without serious climate disruption—immediate, drastic changes to energy and industrial policies are needed, the IEA said in its World Energy Outlook.

Such a shift looks unlikely given current global economic problems and the move away from low-carbon nuclear power in some countries after the...

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Seems that the IEA includes Nuclear Power in its 'clean energy' category.

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Energy Outlook 2011 launched in London

9 November 2011
At a press conference in London, the IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven and Chief Economist Fatih Birol presented the results of the IEA World Energy Outlook 2011 (WEO).

The WEO-2011 looks at how the energy system will evolve in the next 25 years, taking account of the broad policy commitments that have already been announced by countries around the world to address climate change and growing energy insecurity.

The WEO also focuses on climate change issue - with an assessment of what infrastructure "lock-in" means for manoeuvrability to meet the 2 degrees Celsius goal, the potential implications of a rapid slowdown in the use of nuclear power for the global energy landscape, the role of coal in an emissions-constrained world and the consequences on global energy markets of a possible delay in oil and gas sector investment in the Middle East and North Africa. The book includes a review of energy in Russia, looking at the trends in domestic energy markets, supply prospects and its implications for global energy supply.

http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/

[HopeHoops]

1. Yeah, that's going to work - "GE Announces Global Air Conditioning Project"

(With government subsidies, of course)

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Dover.

[jwirr]

3. I do not expect any real action until things get a lot worse. That is

when people will start paying attention. Until then it will be business as usual and it will be the businesses themselves leading the denial.

I absolutely hate the commercials on TV that talk about how all these wonderful energy companies are working so hard to create alternative energy sources. BS they are stalling to make sure they can get every last cent they can out of the people. And while they pile up the money in their bank accounts so they can build a shelter for themselves they do not care one way or the other what happens to us.

[glinda]

4. +1

[truthisfreedom]

5. There is a bit of hope. There's a number of mostly electric and a couple of all-electric cars

arriving. Notably the Tesla Model S, Chevy Volt, and Nissan Leaf. Every electric car on the road eliminates the need for one internal combustion engine's gasoline. And here's another fun fact... ever noticed how refineries have huge transmission lines running into them? They are some of the biggest users of electricity! Each gallon of gas, on average, takes 5KWH of energy to refine. That same energy will drive a Tesla Model S for 20 miles! Think about it... simply buying an electric car eliminates the need to refine that much gas, and the saved electricity can drive the car the same distance a comparable gas car could drive! That's some serious carbon savings, considering that each gallon of gas produces 20 lbs of carbon dioxide when burned. Which is another interesting fun fact. The gas only weighs 6.3 lbs to start with, but it turns into 20 lbs of CO2! How does that work? It combines with oxygen from the atmosphere to do it. It eats up the air we need to breath and turns it into 20 lbs of total death.