Study: Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Could Lessen Warming

Tons of Methane being pumped into our atmosphere every year.

All the Sewage treatment operations every town and city uses, has a digester that converts fecal matter into harmless waste by utilizing special bacteria that performs this task. HOWEVER, this process produces millions of cubic feet of methane that is released into the atmosphere instead of collecting it and compressing it to be used as fuel. A cap could be put over the digester vats to collect the methane to be used as fuel. You could run a car off of the methane saved this way. Instead we allow more carbon gas compounds to enter our atmosphere in addition to the CO2 every one is talking about. Now we have plenty of CH4 going into the air we breathe.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY @ Aug 03, 2009 10:43:32 AM

Nuclear power

Imagine a situation where electrical energy is available without limit, and producing it does not generate greenhouse gases. Nuclear power offers that potential. It is an excellent engineering technology, with 50 years experience and not having yet caused a single American death. Not only is the technology safe and efficient, it is getting better all the time. Reprocessing waste, if allowed, will make the fuel quite cheap. Dealing with the waste is a solvable problem,but we have to get used to having some safety threat. We live with 50,000 people being killed on our highways every year and don't even think about it when we drive. Fear of nuclear waste somehow leaking somewhere some day should not hold back nuclear power. After all, we get the Uranium out of the earth; we can find safe ways to put some of it back.

Back to unlimited nuclear power. This would make Hydrogen cheap...we could transition our cars to Hydrogen (again, no Carbon Dioxide). We would have the electrical energy to process our vast holdings of oil shale to get the liquid fuels needed for airplanes and ships. Heating and airconditioning power would be cheap and no threat to Carbon products.

The whole man-made greenhouse gas emissions problem would fade away.

Tim of MD @ Jun 22, 2009 17:50:40 PM

Study: Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Could Lessen Warming

Its obvious the present Cap and Trade bill should not be passed. When a so-called science study states the following :

...Absolute worst of global warming can still be avoided if the entire world cuts emission of greenhouse gases the way President Barack Obama and Europe want.

Why does the US have a Department Of Energy still, their mission isn't even being worked on effectively? The US is not preparing for our future energy needs, all due to distrusted

scientists and environmentalists.

Walter Pietrosky of FL @ Jun 06, 2009 01:06:17 AM

New Study?

This is April 2009 and according to this report the study referenced is the first on that shows reducing greenhouse gas can make a difference in reducing glaobal warming. Than why have we been told that for the last five years we need to reduce greenhouse gases? I thought we had lots of studies all ready and lots of scientist, in fact 99.9% of scientist that suport reduction in greenhouse gas. Why, if this were we told that if this is the first study that suggests it could help?

I am begining to distrust all scientist and all environmentalists. (I used to be both)

JB Jolibois of WA @ Apr 24, 2009 18:05:45 PM