In a world of rising energy prices, a growing demand for clean and sustainable energy and a growing demand to mitigate climate change, should we be constructing new coal power plans or other high green house gas (GHG) emitting power sources?

When I go around industrial complexes and see the huge eye-catching plume of smoke rising up smoke stacks in to the atmosphere, the first thing that comes to my mind, possibly like most of your minds is the air pollution and to an extent climate change causing potential of these waste hot gases.
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In what will surely become a political issue, at least for the Green Party of Canada, scientists now report that Canadian forests – the “lungs of the planet” – have become carbon dioxide emitters rather than sequestering this greenhouse gas.

These 1.2 million square miles of greenery gained their fame, and their name, by covering seven percent of the world’s surface and absorbing phenomenal quantities of carbon dioxide, whose atmospheric rise since the industrial revolution is believed to be causing climate change, also known as global warming.

With two cold winters in a row, the global warming camp is currently facing serious opposition. In spite of that, 66 percent of Canadians still feel climate change is a serious and growing threat to the habitability of the earth in general, and their beautiful country in particular.
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