Its the energy supply, Stupid ...

[MindMover]

The world is on track for dangerous climate change, having nearly lost room for further pollution in the mix of gases that make up the atmosphere. Despite a rise in clean, renewable energy supplies in certain countries, and a partial shift from coal to natural gas in others, global greenhouse gas pollution continues to rise—and at an increasing pace in the most recent years.

"Economic and population growth are drivers for emissions and they have outpaced the improvements of energy efficiency," said Ottmar Edenhofer, economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Edenhofer spoke at an April 13 press conference in Berlin, where IPCC's Working Group III released its report on the subject of how to mitigate the climate problem.

Nations worldwide have to make major change in energy supply, soon, if they are to restrain climate change to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, Edenhofer and others said. That is a threshhold beyond which serious harm is likely to occur to human civilization as well as the natural world, by the IPCC and other's scientific judgment.

Geoengineering will probably also be required to solve the planet’s global warming pollution problem, Edenhofer and the report noted. The world will also need a crash course in technologies to capture carbon dioxide—the primary greenhouse gas— from the atmosphere to restrain global warming. Without such CCS hopes of restraining climate change to no more than 2 degrees C warming are "no longer feasible," Edenhofer argued. "In the end, two degrees means the phase out of fossil fuels without CCS entirely in the next few decades."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-solve-global-warming-its-the-energy-supply/?&WT.mc_id=SA_SP_20140414

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1. CCS is a pipedream without a carbon tax.

It may be all the fossil fuel industry can do to get a handle on methane emissions (and even then, I won't be holding my breath).

The selling of natural gas as a "bridge" fuel is reprehensible, with new data on methane leaks pointing to the erasure of any advantage over coal with respect to greenhouse gasses. It really puts the article in the "status-quo defender" category, IMO.

[nationalize the fed]

2. scientific american should get an intern to

search their own site

They wrote about game changing tech in 2008

Here's a 2013 update with cost details
youtube com/watch?v=0bXNjTUtMf8

Run a car on sewer gas- exhaust only water