Posted on 07/17/2017 4:36:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe that's because the Paris Accord allows china to increase it's carbon emissions until 2030, while the USA has to reduce it's emissions by 26 percent by 2025.
If we get into another major war, the USA and its allies will need every hydrocarbon energy source we can get: oil, coal, ethanol... everything.
Of course, if douches like Branson though about future wars at all, their strategy is the same as their strategy for moslems - surrender !
since Donald Trump became President, Australian journalists are beginning to speak out.
Branson is no different to Gore. take his, guys:
16 Jul: Daily Telegraph Australia: Miranda Devine: Who’s afraid of the big bad climate monster?
Scaremongering is what Gore does best, and fear is the business model that has made him rich, though his every apocalyptic scenario has failed to materialise...
In our region countries are busy building new clean coal plants. In East Asia alone 1250 new plants are under construction or planned.
Yet in the past eight years in Australia not a single new baseload coal or gas generation unit has been built.
That has to change…
Fossil fuels are here to stay, despite Al Gore.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-climate-monster/news-story/5079c031c43e3de67572402640cc6fc0
15 Jul: Australian: Henry Ergas: G20: you can’t fool all of the people all of the time
Rather, the sticking point (AT THE G20) was Trump’s insistence on inserting a reference in the joint statement to helping other countries “access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently”.
The Europeans were outraged, with one EU official telling The Wall Street Journal that merely mentioning “these kind of energy sources is not something we like”...
..a new survey by Urgewald, an environmental group based in Berlin, identifies about 1600 coal plants that are planned or under construction in 62 countries, increasing global coal-fired power capacity by 43 per cent.
The bulk of those plants are in the G20 countries, with China, India and Japan leading the pack. The firms building the plants and supplying their key components are also almost entirely based in the G20 countries...
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/g20-you-cant-fool-all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time/news-story/385b2b2a46023d3203af7226d46fa68a
There certainly wasn't any great rush by employers to hire ex-miners.
Many of them became long-term unemployed.
And of course, it's condescending to assume nobody enjoyed being a coal miner.
There was camaraderie, working with friends and neighbors.
There was the satisfaction of an honest day's pay for an honest day's work.
Apparently the money wasn't absolutely awful either:
The median salary for a bus driver in the southern part of West Virginia is $30,837. The average coal miner there makes $84,959. “I do enjoy being a bus driver,” says Junior, but he’d go back to the mines if he could. Source
If this Branson guy were a millionaire, he could put some businesses in coal country and hire people for non-coal jobs.
Just one single Virgin Atlantic 787 Dreamliner holds 223,673 lbs of nasty jet fuel. But he has the nerve to preach about burning coal. Almost 112 tons of fuel in one of his jets.
Says the dipwad ghat made his billions selling vinyl made from petroleum
Shutting down his airline would be good for the world.
HYPOCRITE
What do you retrain a 45 year old miner with a mortgage, a car note and possibly a kid or two in college and two more still in high school?
What do you train them to do in an area that is totally dependent on the coal mining industry?
Train them to be a skilled tradesman? In the UAW, such training requires an apprenticeship that encompasses 8000 hours of both classroom and on the job training. Typically, approx. 6 years......
In the meantime, what's going to happen to both the miner who lost his job and the town that depended on his employment?
...........in Austrailia, 90,000 families have NO electricity due to Wind and Solar being forced down consumer throats. And, at a time when it is VERY hot.
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As South Australians prepare for possible power cuts this afternoon, a blame game has erupted between the federal and South Australian governments over power generation.
Key points:
SA Premier Jay Weatherill promises to intervene in state’s electricity market
More blackouts expected for the state, Adelaide forecast to reach top of 42C today
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull lays blame entirely at SA State Government
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill promised to “intervene dramatically in the electricity market” but failed to release any details, after thousands of homes and businesses had their power shut off last night due to insufficient generation capacity.
SA Power Networks initially said 40,000 properties had been affected, but have since revised the number to 90,000.
Mr Weatherill’s promise followed comments from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull earlier this morning, placing the blame for South Australia’s blackouts entirely on the State Government.
“It has created a situation where that state has the most expensive and least reliable electricity in Australia,” Mr Turnbull said.
“That is a fact. Of course they want to blame it on everybody else.
“When they have the biggest heatwave there is no wind and when there is no wind, all of their windmills are not generating electricity
Is Branson a U S citizen? If not he needs to Eff Off
Park year jets, Branson...do the world a favor. Or STFU.
We'll just "move" them.
Why don't we 'move' you, Sir Richard?
Other people's lives and livelihoods are not yours to 'move.'
Another billionaire princess oppressed by middle class coal miners. Funny how these scumbags adopt Marx’s dictatorship conspiracy of the bourgeois
Yep!
He’s a rumoured “swinger” from his 1st marriage.
Thank you for bringing this to others attention. If I didn’t know better I would think that the world socialists are trying to weaken America by hurting our energy resources. If USA quit burning coal completely it would have no effect on the climate at all.
China has been the biggest coal producer in the past three decades. China produced nearly 3.7 billion tons of coal in 2013 representing 47% of global total coal yield. The country also consumes more than half of the world’s total coal consumption.
http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-top-10-coal-producers-worldwide.html
Did I miss him converting his airline fleet to solar power? Fossil fuel is still able to pollute the air, even in liquified form.
If he won’t put scrubbers on the exhaust of each engine, I say he’s a hypocrite.
Branson is an elitist......
Most middle income jobs disappeared in G.B.
Yep, he is and is.
Branson is a typical liberal, always ready to tell other people how they should live.
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