During those times life exploded. Forests and jungles covered the planet, animals thrived, and even insects grew to the size of dogs and cats. Carbon is the basis of life, not a pollutant. Maybe a little too much has been locked underground.
Posted on 02/03/2020 3:50:04 PM PST by karpov
Just beyond the windows of Satsuki Kanno’s apartment overlooking Tokyo Bay, a behemoth from a bygone era will soon rise: a coal-burning power plant, part of a buildup of coal power that is unheard-of for an advanced economy.
It is one unintended consequence of the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost a decade ago, which forced Japan to all but close its nuclear power program. Japan now plans to build as many as 22 new coal-burning power plants — one of the dirtiest sources of electricity — at 17 different sites in the next five years, just at a time when the world needs to slash carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming.
“Why coal, why now?” said Ms. Kanno, a homemaker in Yokosuka, the site for two of the coal-burning units that will be built just several hundred feet from her home. “It’s the worst possible thing they could build.”
Together the 22 power plants would emit almost as much carbon dioxide annually as all the passenger cars sold each year in the United States. The construction stands in contrast with Japan’s effort to portray this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo as one of the greenest ever.
The Yokosuka project has prompted unusual pushback in Japan, where environmental groups more typically focus their objections on nuclear power. But some local residents are suing the government over its approval of the new coal-burning plant in what supporters hope will jump-start opposition to coal in Japan.
The Japanese government, the plaintiffs say, rubber-stamped the project without a proper environmental assessment. The complaint is noteworthy because it argues that the plant will not only degrade local air quality, but will also endanger communities by contributing to climate change.
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Guess the NYT dumbos have not yet read NASA’s latest output concerning a possible global cooling due to ...wait....THE SUN.
Those of us who are STEM types have know about this for some time now, but then again, journalists - you know.
Oops, “have know”...I made a Bernie mistake.
So according to the NYTs it would be better for people to die of exposure and starve to death rather than face the mythical globull warming, right?
I have a solution:
Since the greenies over there want no nukes, and no coal plants (to save the environment, of course), chain all the environmentalists to bicycles for pedal power. Note that it may get a little harder to pedal during peak period. Load up on carbs before the morning rush.
The NYT and other Fake News outlets will never, never, NEVER be talked out of their Gorebull Warming Cult beliefs, even when it starts snowing in Miami.
For your interest.
We’ve got plenty of coal to sell them.
In a nutshell.
It probably is, since many liberal global elitists want to reduce the world’s population to 500 million. I wonder if any of them would like to volunteer to off themselves for the cause?
The legacy of Jim Jones lives.
There are no climate risks. Coal can be burned more cleanly than ever.
Coal is good! Wish we had built that plant a few years ago and that the Greenies didn’t stop it. Yucca Mountain was going to be a big fat cow the entire country could have used. They ruined that too.
My God the slimes is an international joke.
these dying msm outlets should put out an add that says..
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GET BACK TO WORK ON THE PLANTATION WHERE YOU BELONG YOU FILTHY STINKING PEASANTS!! HAVEN’T YOU EVER HEARD OF THE CASTE SYSTEM!!
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They don’t care about other countries, but they want us to be thrown back into the stone age.
We’ve got plenty of coal to sell them.
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Until we elect enough dems to outlaw exports.
I think the ozzies are the main source.
Apparently they import about 99% of coal...:^)
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39853
How is China doing with putting out their coal seam fires [a significant source of CO2 (and likely CO)]?
"They are monstrous, centuries-old infernos that issue thick billows of ash and smoke, and generate sinkholes that consume roads and homes without warning. Yet in spite of the dangers they pose, underground coal fires are some of the least known environmental disasters. China, the world’s largest miner and consumer of coal, has consistently downplayed the fires in its coalfields, considered the most severe on earth."
https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/6296-The-world-s-longest-burning-fires-China-s-unseen-story
Well I want to know why NASA is wasting time studying the sun when they are supposed to be doing Muslim outreach.
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