Sentences with phrase «coal smoke»

"Coal smoke" is a phrase that refers to the smoke or pollution caused by burning coal. Full definition
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.
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.
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.
Given those two factors and ignoring future emissions that will drive the temperature even higher, we are already over +2 C warming once we stop emitting short - lived coal smoke and other pollutants into the air and we give the Earth time to reach temperature equilibrium.
Heck, Markey's committee in the house is named «Global Warming and Energy Independence» The coal industry is making a logical argument, we as voters need to balance coal smoke pollution with the benefits of using a local resource.
It was only after expatriation that I learned the old «pea - soupers» were laden with noxious coal smoke, dispelled by environmental laws after a particularly deadly fog in 1952.
So while Germany attempts a massive and uncertain experiment in migrating from nuclear to renewable energies, it will belch more coal smoke (and carbon dioxide) into the air but pressure the rest of Europe to belch something else.
These are just first thoughts, without research, but they are my questions that have to be answered before I become a believer in photosynthetic coal smoke processing.
Staring at the noontime sun in a cloudless sky through a thick fog of coal smoke that every building was burning for heat in Beijing, green wiggly things coming out of the water tap in Shanghi, fields where nothing could be grown due to heavy metal sludge in Poland, and let's not forget the Marxist environmental masterpiece of Chernobyl.
Mr. Lewis tells me that the latest observational estimates of the effect of aerosols (such as sulfurous particles from coal smoke) find that they have much less cooling effect than thought when the last IPCC report was written.
Q: Hi Dr. BBQ, I have been trying to smoke food on the BBQ and I am having trouble getting the wood chunks to smoke, I soak the wood but when I put them on the coals they smoke for a few minutes then they catch fire?
I have been trying to smoke food on the BBQ and I am having trouble getting the wood chunks to smoke, I soak the wood but when I put them on the coals they smoke for a few minutes then they catch fire?
So solid was the river for about six weeks, and so unpleasant was London itself — what with all the coal smoke made necessary by the extreme cold — that half the city took to the ice.
Just one of those excesses is the wasteful use of energy, which if repeated would leave the country under a pall of filthy brown - coal smoke and make a mockery of any idea of restricting the world's output of carbon dioxide.
«I strolled out on the jetty and peered into the mist and coal smoke... From this spectral effluence appeared the Phoenix, looming high, klaxon loud.
These, and the carriages» opening windows, give our guests the full romantic and evocative experience of steam rail travel from the smell of the coal smoke to the panting of the engine as it climbs the Brocken, the train's wheels clattering on the rails beneath.
The main sources of air pollution in homes are coal smoke and wood smoke.
Can we just stop removing the sulfates from our diesel and filtering them from coal smoke or are they somehow stabilizied so as not to create the evul acid rains?
Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly - some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is «not settled» denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
Particulate matter: Better known as «soot,» this is the ashy grey substance in coal smoke, and is linked with chronic bronchitis, aggravated asthma, cardiovascular effects like heart attacks, and premature death.
We, as a society, have discovered that the uncontrolled consumption of fossil fuel can lead to problems: coal smoke, petrochemical smog, accumulation of greenhouse gases, etc..
The idea is to slow global warming and cure the planet's energy woes, not with plasma or windmills or «clean» coal smoke, but with mirrors.
In the 1200s, Londoners complained about the clouds of coal smoke.
Coal smoke is polluted with acid - forming NOx and SOx, which might kill the algae.
You can make a case in places like China and India, where the public health effects of coal smoke are so terrible, that gas is better even if it's not helping the climate — but these are also precisely the places poised to make huge advances in renewables.
Or, if you feel like that coal smoke flavour, simply slide out a tray, fill it with charcoals and plonk it on top of the hobs.
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