Howard Announces New Climate Plan - $500M For "Clean Coal"

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“We’re all affected in some way by climate change,” Howard said in his weekly radio address. “We must respond on a number of fronts. There is no one single solution that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the years ahead.”

Instead, Howard said Australia will invest in new technologies designed to use fossil fuels, such as coal, while producing lower emissions.

The prime minister did not elaborate on which technologies might be used, but Australia has already made significant investments in carbon dioxide storage techniques – known as carbon capture.

“Our country is the largest coal exporter in the world,” Howard said. “It is therefore in our interests to find ways in which these fuels can be used with lower emissions.”

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http://breaking.examiner.ie/2006/10/22/story282031.html

Law of Conservation of Mass be damned.

Ditto on the :eyes::eyes:

why, then we'll be producing lower levels of greenhouse gases per dollar of GDP!!

Doesn't the brilliant long-term genius of it just take your breath away?? No need for nasty laws or emission caps or anything like THAT!

Farcical. Taking a trend that's been in place since about 1715 and claiming it as a "policy", and then pretending that it will actually do something to reduce total emissions.

Absolutely pathetic.