Record Ozone hole (Antarctica, Sept ‘06). The Earth at night: ~85% fossil fuel powered.

Record Ozone hole (Antarctica, Sept ‘06)

The Earth at night: ~85% fossil fuel powered

Fossil fuel burning is melting the Arctic

Making a last stand?

How far can they swim?

Schematic diagram of possible CCS systems

SRCCS Figure TS-1

World Energy 1850-2000

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Oil

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Biomass

Shell Oil view of non-ff energy sources to 2060

Fossil fuels are dominated by coal

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OilRsv

OilRes

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UnconvConv

““The Stone Age didn’t end because The Stone Age didn’t end because they ran out of stones”they ran out of stones”

- Sheik Yamani (OPEC)- Sheik Yamani (OPEC)

Air travel the fastest growing CO2 source

Moving mountains (West Va)

• And the rough places made plane

Trans-Alaska pipeline

• China: a new 500 Mw plant every week

Air pollution from fossil fuel burning in China

Can you see Beijing ?

Pollution haze covers eastern China

Carbon sequestration schemes

Norwegian natural gas (North Sea)

Sleipner (North Sea sequestration)

Sleipner: 1MtonC/yr sequestered