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Ending Coal: Climate Science That Matters

Posted on September 04, 2008

Leading climate science Dr. James Hansen [search], who heads NASA's noted Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has called for an immediate halt in the construction of coal-fired power stations [ark] moreark. This is something Ecological Internet has strongly supported for years, and this political ecology represents climate science that matters. Dr Hansen is in England as a defense witness in the trial of six Greenpeace activists charged with damaging the Kingsnorth coal power plant in October last year. Energy giant E.on wants to build UK's first coal-fired plant for more than 30 years, and...

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