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Miliband is said to favour developing "clusters" of carbon capture and storage (CCS), fitted on both coal- and gas-fired power stations, and a "national grid" for transporting and storing the polluting emissions. Such a move would be a change from the current policy of building up to eight coal plants, with only one equipped with pollution-trapping technology

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Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar

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Another nail in the deforesters’ justification coffin - tropical forests are worth more intact than cut down. This one from Mongabay.com and one for the Potential section:

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A possible solution to global warming may be further away than ever, according to a new report published in the journal Nature. Scientists measuring how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is locked away in the deep ocean by plankton when it dies found that it was significantly less than previous estimates.

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Good article on Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS, also called Carbon Capture and Storage) - a technology for reducing output of CO2 with a link to Google Map of commercially significant CCS projects.

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Former vice president and environmental campaigner Al Gore has urged young people to protest against new coal-fired power plants that don't use carbon capture and storage technology.

September 2008: Al Gore speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.

Speaking at the opening plenary session of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York, Gore said: "If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."

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The fight against global climate change may turn out to be a very good fight for the U.S. farmer.

Credits earned for agro practices that sequester GhGs in the soil instead of releasing them into the atmosphere have sold on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCE) for $2.50 to $7 a metric ton over the last 3 years and earn ~$4 a metric ton now. 990 North Dakota farmers and ranchers participating through the National Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program earned $2.6 million in July 2008.

Credits are earned primarily from no-till farming, a method of planting in which – instead of plowing the soil and releasing GhGs that have fallen or rotted into it – a machine injects seeds and fertilizer into standing stubble from the previous crop

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When you put lime into seawater it absorbs almost twice as much carbon dioxide as is produced by the breaking down of the limestone in the first place.

This has the effect of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It also helps to prevent ocean acidification, another problem caused by the increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

If done on a large enough scale it would be possible to reduce carbon dioxide levels back to what they were before the Industrial Revolution.

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A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide captured from power plants or other sources.

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CSS consists of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) as it is released into the atmosphere, compressing it and then pumping it back into depleted oil and gas fields or other safe underground chambers

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Algae holds much promise as a carbon eater and a biofuel. It can be grown in arid climates using waste or polluted water and since it grows so fast each acre of algae produces more energy than from other biofuels. Nor is algae a food crop.

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