Sentences with phrase «point about coal»

They like to compare carbon emissions from the power plant to those from Montana's summer forest fires, in order to make a point about coal concerns being overblown.

Your point about coal vs. oil availability in the 19th century is well taken, although I would remind you that much oil exploration (outside of the middle east) is not done on the cheap, and is indeed supported by generous subsidies from governments.

Not exact matches

But ask a Canadian politician, and you'll likely hear a drum beat of talking points about China's voracious energy appetite and the imperative to ramp up our oil, gas, and coal exports.

At that point, Stracher did not know very much about coal, but he had a strong background in chemical thermodynamics.

The Coal Oil Point seep field (COP) in the Santa Barbara Channel offshore from Goleta, California, is a marine petroleum seep area of about three square kilometres, within the Offshore South Ellwood Oil Field and stretching from the coastline southward more than three kilometers (1.9 mi).

This was noted by Gelbspan in his book «Boiling Point» about the coal industry and CO2.

The post provides useful detail highlighting the prime point of contention about Howarth's work — the choices he makes in defining the greenhouse impact of methane (from gas wells and pipes) and carbon dioxide (from coal burning).

A final point is also crucial — about how the coal shift, while largely driven by domestic smog and productivity concerns, could put China in a strong position going into the next rounds of talks aimed at crafting a new climate treaty:

Andy points to the erstwhile dilemma posed by mercury - thanks to the Times interminable editorializing about the tons of quicksilver emitted by coal fired power plants several states upwind, many Manhattanites fear Minimata Disease should they crack open a window.

Third, the focus of my comment was also on climate, not on electricity prices, although the two (with respect to this subject) are very interlinked, as you've pointed out in the past and as your own point about competitiveness with respect to coal in China underscores.

There is a confusing picture in the energy debate about which technologies are the cheapest option, yet the world is clearly at a point where more renewables are getting built and there is uncertainty about new coal and gas plants.

Additionally, I wanted to delve a little more into the much publicized domestic coal supply woes of China that we might have all read about at some point or another.

Is this to say developing nations shouldn't worry about CO2 emissions, and that western nations can not point their fingers at them and say «hey, why should we cut our CO2 emissions when they are building their THIRD coal plant?»

Over a similar length of time though earlier, namely from 2005 to 2008, cost per watt of a coal power station increased from $ 1.50 per watt to over $ 3 per watt, based on a report I pointed out to you about a week ago.

Patrick Forkin of Peabody was here to talk about coal's abundant, clean, affordable, reliable magnificence, echoing the talking point the RNC lifted from a clean coal advocacy group for its platform.

There is nothing left to really argue about... at some point the cost of producing electricity with coal will exceed the cost of the alternatives and the alternatives will be adopted.

At another point, he talks about placing fees (taxes) on pollutants from coal fired electricity like mercury.

Why don't you continue to represent those fine coal industry geologists by pointing out a few that «know much, much more about the mechanisms of the atmosphere and its variations over time...» than the climatologists and atmospheric scientists that make it their profession to know how atmospheres vary over time.

As my colleague Gordon pointed out in a post last week, India is currently learning the most important lesson about its over-dependence on outdated, centralized coal - fired power: It is simply not flexible enough to accommodate India's real problem - peak demand (the kind that happens when 20 million Delhi inhabitants turn on their air conditioners or fans all at once).

I was talking to a very knowledgeable friend about whether solar power will become cheaper than coal in the next decade, and he pointed out a problem in how solar advocates price their power.

The about - to - retire Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Phil Radford, unabashedly points to Ross Gelbspan as «the lone voice, the moral compass, the beacon that has inspired countless people, me included, to demand our country and our future back from the coal and oil interests behind global warming» (full text here).

Fred is deeply concerned about proposals to build the largest coal export terminal in North America near Bellingham, Washington, and the herring spawning grounds of the Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve.

«There's still a bit of social perception about replacing coal with something else, but I think that is finally hitting a tipping point where people are more receptive to it,» he said.

Despite uncertainty and confusion about the numbers, the 2016 data is one more piece of evidence that China will not return to the days of skyrocketing coal consumption for good, and that the world's largest CO2 emitter is on the right path to start reducing its emissions permanently at some point in the coming decade.

Maybe Hansen is a nutter, who created scare stories about seas boiling, apocalyptic storms, Venusian tipping points, because people weren't taking much notice of his fixation that coal was evil.

This week's news about Peabody Energy becoming the latest and final publicly - traded coal company to declare bankruptcy put an exclamation point on this devastating era for the coal industry.

Actual 1st phase of coal exports out of Cherry Point is about 24 million tons, insignificant compared to overall global trade.

This film seemed to take a sensible approach, or at least the show based on it, that would be a counter point to Patrick Moore's statement about how wind energy won't produce the same amount of energy as oil, coal and nuclear power.

When Jay O'Hara and his co-captain Ken Ward moored their lobster boat in the unloading dock of Brayton Point Power Station in New England, blockading a 40,000 ton coal shipment in the process, they were fully prepared to face the legal consequences of their actions (not to mention the usual tired old complaints about eco-hypocrisy).

To read more about COP - 15 and Hopenhagen at TreeHugger: Voices from Hopenhagen: Andrew Winston On Hopenhagen, Naomi Klein Misses the Point Entirely The Week in Pictures: COP15 Climate Change Conference, «ClimateGate Scandal, Coal Fire Still Burns (After 47 Years), and More (Slideshow) COP - 15 United Nations Climate Change Conference

As I pointed out here, CAGR for CO2 emissions from coal, oil, natural gas, flaring, and cement production averaged 3.08 % for the period 2000 - 2010, peaking to 6 % in 2003 over 2002 (though there was no hysteria that time) and again in 2010 over 2009 (much unwarranted hysteria about a single year, even by professionals but perhaps overblown by the media as usual who may have been selective about who they quoted!).

I note that on our last little chat about natural variability on Climate Etc, you didn't get around to answering my point that since momma nature was able to cause many big swings in temperature before man ever set fire to coal, she probably still can.

I made the point then (and repeat it here) that although this doesn't «disprove» global warming (the globe has warmed and during this warming we have gone from about half a million cars to almost a billion, from about 500 coal - fired power plants to about 23,000 — I'll let you tell me about the growth in the numbers of airplanes, washing machines and data centers...), it is a fairly straightforward argument against high sensitivity of the atmosphere to increasing concentrations of CO2.