When you flip the switch on the wall and the light goes on, you know exactly what it costs — all you have to do is take a deep breath and feel the burn of coal smoke in your lungs. (bookbrowse.com)
Matt Ridley writes, «Mr. Lewis tells me that... aerosols (such as sulfurous particles from coal smoke)... have much less cooling effect than thought when the last IPCC report was written. (climatesciencewatch.org)
Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night. (filmfreakcentral.net)