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James Hansen: No New Coal

-- Adam -- 02/27/2007

Honored NASA climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, called for a moratorium on the construction of any new coal-fired power plants on Monday before the National Press Club, the AP reports. He said that coal burning constituted "the big amount" of carbon emissions contributing to global warming today. Further, he said that, by the middle part of this century, plants that do not have ways to sequester carbon dioxide "must eventually be bulldozed". He offered increased efficiency as the way to compensate for the subsequent reductions in electricity supply.