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*BP Energy Outlook 2030 Report January 2012

*Planning our electric future: White Paper for secure, affordable and low carbon electricity 2011

* Global Cleantech 100 The most innovative companies report 2011

* GCCSI Carbon Capture and Storage  Global Status Report  2011 

* US Energy Information Association DOE / EIA International Energy Outlook Report 2011    

   *Special IPCC Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation

*Global CCS Institute Carbon CO2 Transport

 

How Do We Monitor and Calculate Global CO2 Levels?  

At present with current energy demands we are adding 2 ppm of CO2 each year. Recent Readings show that parts of worlds atmosphere now exceed *390 parts per million – a 40% increase on pre-industrial CO2 Levels.

with out intervention Current trends show we will exceed 450 ppm in 30 years. This level of CO2 will raise the temperature of the planet by  as much as 3 degrees Celsius which will have catastrophic consequences.

Monthly Mean Global CO2 Levels for the month of Sept 2011 = 389.00 ppm

Monthly Mean Global CO2 Levels for the month of Sept 2010 = 386.80 ppm

Data Source : http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

The aforementioned link will direct you to the ESRL Global Monitoring Division: NOAA ( National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) website. This is invaluable source for up to date climatic and CO2 level data. The site explains how we monitor CO2 levels, trends and forecasts. The ESRL (Earth System Research Laboratory ) studies and reports on the atmospheric mechanisms that drive the Earth's climate.

Scientists and Economists are fearful that the current rate of CO2 output will continue to rise at an accelerated rate due to China, India and the rest of world’s ever growing population - industrialization, mobility and energy demands (Inaction could result in raising levels to 550 ppm in 30 years)

What level of CO2 can we and the planet endure? Scientists feel that the planet can handle 350 ppm on an on going basis, and that we must go beyond stalling CO2 at its present level ( *390 ppm) as the world is allready feeling the impacts of climate change, the world must collectively focus on bringing it below 350 ppm. Idealistically they would prefer to see it back down to 287 ppm.

How Much CO2 Can the Earth Safely Take ?

Anthropogenic global warming is releasing CO2 ten times faster than our worst geological global warming episode in the past called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2011/06/carbon-emissions-10-times-faster-climate-change/1

It is very likely that the global average temperature this century will rise above 3 C by 2100. If this happens it would be a temperature rate of increase that is a 100X greater than the PETM that witnessed a temperature rise of about 6 C over a 20,000-year time span. It would most likely be catastrophic because we will certainly witness a dramatic increase in the severity of heat waves, droughts and extreme precipitation events in addition to a geometric increase in the intensity and size of cyclonic storms (tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons) as we already have witnessed with just a .8 C rise in global temperatures after one century's worth of the Industrial Revolution (CO2 levels have risen 40% from 280 ppm to 390 ppm).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum

Here is a video that explains the incremental effects of global temperatures moving towards 6 C:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfBMUd-Es0M

If global average temperatures rise to the upper range of 6 C by 2100 that already appears likely in addition to 1,672 gigatonnes of methane being released from the Arctic Permafrost (three times more carbon than all of the worlds’ forests contain) then we could easily be looking at a 13 C temperature rise by 2200 or earlier. A 6 C rise in temperatures by 2100 could primarily come from carbon dioxide while methane from melting permafrost could add an additional 7 C (for every 10 percent of permafrost that melts, the resultant feedback could result in an additional 80 ppm carbon dioxide equivalent released into the atmosphere, equating to about 0.7°C of global warming).

CCS is currently a global strategy that we must use to buy time until we can effectively manage global Emission through Future Carbon Reductive Innovations, Air - CO2 Absorption, CO2 Recycling Technologies, Zero Emission Industries and CO2- Free Energy Solutions

As the CCS market evolves, Safe and permanent geologic CO2 storage is an important element in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology

I would like to refer to a post titled "The Big Question: How Much CO2 Can the Earth Hold? " http://nyti.ms/guryEQ in the New York Times by Filip Neele, a research geologist at the geosciences branch of TNO.

There could be as much as 5,700 years of carbon dioxide (CO2) storage potential available in geologic formations in the United States and portions of Canada, according to the latest edition of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Carbon Sequestration Atlas (Atlas III).
http://1.usa.gov/gGNkTR.

There are many key regions through out the world that have Potentially safe long term CO2 storage assets at their disposal through Depleted Oil, Gas Fields and Saline Aquifers:

Peak Oil, and its continued rising price means that CO2 EOR and EGR resource optimization and Carbon Sequestration projects are now becoming an attractive proposal to Oil / Energy Companies

However many regions, countries do not have a direct access to Geological Safe CO2 Storage Assets. CO2 Transportation and Infrastructure Development are some of the major challenges and issues facing CCS and its global application on a local and regional level:

The Future and Emerging Market Opportunities

CO2 is also a resource, with base elements, which can be converted into a series of trade-able commodities, valuable products and chemicals which in the near future will be processed on a profitable and industrial scale.

Infrastructure, CCS Integration costs and energy instensive processing reduce profitablity for industrialists and owners: We must collectively focus on accelerating the development Up take of lead clean techologies and process to effectively drive market transformation.

Industrial Process
It important that we focus on the research and development of efficient. more cost effective Carbon and Emission Reduction - Removal and Storage Solutions including CCR Carbon Capture Reusage, CO2 Recycling , Bio Sequestration, CO2 Sequestration with Enhanced Coal Seam Methane Recovery, CO2 Mineralization, Geo Engineering, Large Industrial Scale Air - CO2 Absorption Technologies, Green Refining, Clean Processing, Sustainable Clean Power Generation and Energy Storage Solutions.

There is an urgency to accelerate the modernization of industrial, commercial and domestic environments with a focus to deploy and integrate more cost effective sustainable processes, carbon reductive technologies and energy smart solutions                          

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