NRDC recognizes importance of clean coal technology

It’s no secret that several environmental groups have chosen to join in a campaign that ignores the progress made through the use of advanced clean coal technologies. But that doesn’t mean that all environmental groups feel the same way.

Just like any other issue, opinions differ. And some prominent environmental groups have begun to advocate for a government push to deploy clean coal technologies.

Last month, National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) hosted workshops advocating more spending on clean coal research.

These groups both know coal will remain an important fuel for years to come. In fact, an NRDC climate expert told the Wall Street Journal that clean coal technology and carbon capture "is both needed and feasible."

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[scott t]

this link

http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20070628.html
claims
"on the Department of Energy Web site, 'there is — and has been since before the industrial revolution — enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to absorb about 36 percent of the radiation emitted by the earth.

But because of the “competition” for the earth’s radiation from clouds and other GHGs, the heat-trapping contribution of carbon dioxide to the greenhouse effect is reduced to about 12 percent.

“By itself, however, carbon dioxide is capable of trapping three times as much radiation as it actually does in the earth’s atmosphere,” the DOE said.

Adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, then, can do little to trap more of the earth’s radiation and so won’t contribute much to higher temperatures or more global warming."

if true....why is there any need for carbon capture of any sort? is the carbon capture concept a lie?