Sentences with phrase «thinking about coal»

In an effort to move the discussion closer to that more «full portfolio» view, I would actually argue that if you care about climate, in the near term, you might want to be thinking about coal as much or more than you think about renewables.

When we think about coal, we mostly think about burning it and mining it, but the TVA spill should burn into our memories the fact that disposing of all that coal ash can lead to a whole other series of environmental disasters (soon after the TVA spill, a second one took place in Alabama).

Not exact matches

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Most analysts think Rio Tinto got a good price for its NSW coal sale, but radio host Ray Hadley reckons the Treasurer will have «major concerns» about China's involvement.

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

«Back then no one ever thought about fertilizing with sulfur because there was always plenty of atmospheric sulfur available from burning coal.»

Everybody understand no matter what you may think about the energy needs of the United States right now, the future is not going to be coal and oil, it's just is not going to be.

Here's one climate change denier who really doesn't want you to think twice about his funding from Koch, coal and oil: Dr. Willie Soon, freshly profiled in today's Boston Globe.

At a Seattle Film Festival tribute, Sissy Spacek talks about problems young actresses face, why she didn't want to play «Coal Miner's Daughter» and what she thinks of Jessica Chastain

«We did this out of a love for our own family pets, because when you think about it, would you put a coal tar treatment on your child?

It is important to note that there is an ongoing debate about the use of coal tar, since it is thought to be a carcinogen.

We need nuclear plants as quickly as possible to begin the phase out dirty coal plants and to start to think seriously about mass produced, American made electric cars.

If Peabody energy's bosses think about this problem, in the future people will not buy their duty energy, will they stop build coal power plant?

You can get about 50 times the energy out of solar cells covering the same area as a bio-reactor tank that depends on photosynthesis, so I don't think the idea that fertilizing bio-fuels with the CO2 from coal combustion makes sense.

When you talk about coal projects in the developing world, I think you need to put this in perspective.

When you think about it, Japan doesn't use very much coal.

Whatever you think of the claims about coal exports and coal - related jobs (several critics of Mr. McCain pounced on that statement), it does seem quite a stark turnabout for the candidate.

If the editors of the Times were truly smart and forward thinking, they would repeatedly condemn the greedy oil and coal industry as well as the rightwing naysayers like the moron in the oval office, and get real about climate change.

I thought the comments up thread about coal aerosols in China were interesting.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

In the twisted minds of the industry Mad Men who put this together, it makes perfect sense to turn songs about the birth of Jesus into songs about «clean coal... I'd say clean coal had jumped the shark, but I think you have to actually exist first before you can become self - parody.»

That said, I think Andrew may have been wondering about which COUNTRY has to count the emissions toward their cap or target — the country that exports the coal, the country that makes (say) the cars, or the country that buys them?

But one little fly in the ointment about «following the money»: don't you think the oil and coal lobbies have pockets one HELL of a lot deeper than environmental organizations supported by well intentioned college profs, high school teachers and housewives??

If industry - generated aerosols have a more limited cooling effect than originally thought, we can clean up and scale down dirty coal plants without worrying too much about consequent sudden jumps in global temperatures of up to 2 degrees C (if I remember the upper limits of earlier studies correctly).

Do you think that most of these politicians who talk about «clean coal» have any clue whatsoever what processes are involved, how they would work, and what the chances and risks are?

We did not succeed in what we set out to do except for the fact that tens of thousands of people up and down the East Coast got to see the panel and got to start thinking about how to get our most important piece of real estate off of coal.

I think if the coal industry hadn't been so vicious about all of this, buying them out would be on the table.

Apparently, when Jonathan Moylan and his fellow activists are not campaigning against coal mines they are thinking about how to maximising their superannuation nest eggs.

Big Oil and Big Coal funded sympathetic think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute and also outright front groups with names like Friends of Science and the Global Climate Coalition, all of which came up with an endless stream of arguments for why global warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done about it.

On a conference call discussing the plan, Vice President for Research Maria T. Zuber said they thought «a whole lot» about targeted divestment, particularly whether to divest only from coal, but ultimately concluded that any level of divestment would hinder the ability to work with the industry on future research initiatives.

What I think the UK public wasn't told about was the difficult nature of the remaining coal resources.

While coal supporters worried about how this could impact future projects, some environmentalists thought Ecology's decision would actually send a positive message to other companies.

Evidently, the legislature is having second thoughts about a future without coal, because this week both the House and the Senate moved legislation that would overturn the coal ban.

I think it's worth noting that even running on pure coal - electricty, a plug - in hybrid electric today would have much lower emissions of greenhouse gasses than the average new car today running on gasoline, and about the same emissions as a regular hybrid.

Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy (NYSE: MEE) the fourth largest coal producer in the United States thinks Gore, Pelosi, Reid and environmentalists are crazy, atheist, communist Greeniacs who lie about climate change and other environmental issues.

Warmist v Warmist: RealClimate.org's Pierrehumbert rebukes Hansen as «demonstrably wrong in his assertion that a Venus - type runaway greenhouse is a virtual certainty if we burn all the coal» — Pierrehumbert: «I think that Jim Hansen is demonstrably wrong in his assertion that a Venus - type runaway greenhouse is a virtual certainty if we burn all the coal; he is right about almost everything and I greatly admire him, but he is wrong about this»

When we think about climate change, we typically focus on factories, coal and cars, but rarely on this fact.

Think about the layers as a sandwich: The coal is the filling and the sedimentary layers are the bread.

So here's what I encourage you to do: Before you jump on the coal - bashing - bandwagon, think about the families that depend on it and the conveniences it's given us.

Given that three of the four largest U.S. coal producers have or will soon emerge from bankruptcy, we hope that the people who have chosen to invest in, lend to, or manage this industry are thinking realistically about what they might face under a Clinton Administration.

As Wendy and I talked about her struggle against the powerful coal industry in the Hunter Valley, I thought that Wendy and Edward Loure, the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize winner from Africa, would have a lot to talk about.

«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.

Some studies suggested that emissions from rapidly developing countries in Asia could be largely to blame — India and China, for example, are thought to have ramped up their sulfur dioxide output by about 60 percent over the decade through coal burning.

During that time, the coal, oil and gas conglomerate Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, and other companies lavished tens of millions of dollars on a network of think tanks, advocacy groups and academic centers to sow doubt about climate science and attack renewable energy.

Hankamer said: «When you think about statements like «coal is good for humanity» because we're pulling people out of poverty, it's just not true».

I thought about that also, Wood doesn't burn as hot and I liked what Willis stated about «more flame» produced by Wood than Coal.

Everything You Think You Know About Coal in China Is Wrong Melanie Hart, Luke Bassett, and Blaine Johnson Center for American Progress May 2017

«You'll be talking about things close to home and you should be thinking about your air and your streets and your bay... but you also need to keep some corner of your mind open for what people everywhere else in the world are going to go through if that coal makes it out of Montana and Wyoming and gets burnt, if that carbon gets poured into the atmosphere.»

I think it's clear that the reason everyone's upset now is we're talking about 100 + million tons of coal that mostly can't find a market to be burned without WA ports.

A financial think tank named Carbon Tracker has shown that about 80 % of the world's coal reserves can never be mined, yet the mining companies involved are in denial; they all seem to believe that their coal deposits can be mined, it is other companies that will miss out.