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Posted on 11/26/2012 4:41:39 PM PST by Libloather
More than 1,000 New Coal Plants Planned Worldwide
By Damian Carrington, The Guardian
Published: November 26th, 2012
More than 1,000 coal-fired power plants are being planned worldwide, new research has revealed.
The huge planned expansion comes despite warnings from politicians, scientists, and campaigners that the planet's fast-rising carbon emissions must peak within a few years if runaway climate change is to be avoided and that fossil fuel assets risk becoming worthless if international action on global warming moves forward.
Coal plants are the most polluting of all power stations and the World Resources Institute (WRI) identified 1,200 coal plants in planning across 59 countries, with about three-quarters in China and India. The capacity of the new plants add up to 1,400GW to global greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of adding another China — the world's biggest emitter.
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Good on China for telling the global warmists to kiss their collective asses.
From what I've been reading recently, we are in the midst of cyclical "global cooling" and have been for the past 10-15 years. Al gore and his ilk are on the wrong horse. If they live long enough they can catch the next natural cycle of "global warming".
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“From what I’ve been reading recently, we are in the midst of cyclical “global cooling” . . ..”
I’d like to be able to cite some such sources and their rebuttals of global warming for the edification of editors of local newspapers I read.
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