Can you guess what the World Coal Association says about climate change?

[kristopher]

World Coal Association
Coal & the Environment
Coal, like all other sources of energy, has a number of environmental impacts, from both coal mining and coal use.

Coal mining raises a number of environmental challenges, including soil erosion, dust, noise and water pollution, and impacts on local biodiversity. Steps are taken in modern coal mining operations to minimise these impacts.

Continuous improvements in technology have dramatically reduced or eliminated many of the environmental impacts traditionally associated with the use of coal in the vital electricity generation and steelmaking industries. Viable, highly effective technologies have been developed to tackle the release of pollutants - such as oxides of sulphur (SOx) and nitrogen (NOx) - and particulate and trace elements, such as mercury. More recently, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) have become a concern because of their link to climate change.

There is now growing recognition that technology developments have to be part of the solution to climate change. This is particularly true for coal because its use is growing in so many large economies, including the largest and fastest growing countries such as China and India.
http://www.worldcoal.org/coal-the-environment/

You can't very well push for carbon capture and storage plants if you don't admit there is a problem.

Carbon Capture & Storage
Carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) technology is the only currently available technology that allows very deep cuts to be made in CO2 emissions to atmosphere from fossil fuels at the scale needed.

Failure to widely deploy CCS will seriously hamper international efforts to address climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the pre-eminent body on climate science - has identified CCS as a critical technology to stabilise atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations in an economically efficient manner. The IPCC found that CCS could contribute up to 55% of the cumulative mitigation effort by 2100 while reducing the costs of stabilisation to society by 30% or more.

CCS will be needed across a number of sectors that need to tackle CO2 emissions, including fossil fuel power stations (coal, gas and oil), steel, aluminium, cement and chemicals.
http://www.worldcoal.org/carbon-capture-storage/

I wouldn't expect this to cause climate deniers' heads to explode, but it might at least create a little ringing in their ears....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. What they are trying at Danbury CT.

http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/FuelCell_Energy_To_Develop_Clean_Coal_Fuel_Cell_Power_Plant_999.html



Danbury CT (SPX) May 04, 2011
FuelCell Energy has announced an $11.7 million cost share award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for Phase III of the Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) coal-based systems program. The SECA program is a collaboration among the Federal Government, private industry, and academia to develop megawatt-class solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) power plants that use coal syngas to generate electricity.

Power generation from coal syngas advances the nation's energy security while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The total Phase III program cost is $11.7 million, of which $8.2 million will be funded by the DOE.

The objective for this Phase III award is to build and operate an SOFC module with output of 60 kilowatts (kW) utilizing the cell and stack designs of Versa Power Systems, Inc., the technology partner of FuelCell Energy. The design of the 60 kW SOFC module is scalable, allowing a building block approach to create 250 kW modules or larger.

[kristopher]

2. What does this have to do with the coal industry admitting they are causing climate change?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=309759&mesg_id=309939

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. This has to do with lessening coal's impact on climate change. n/t

[kristopher]

4. What does that have to do with the coal industry admitting they are causing climate change?