On Jul 4, 8:10 pm, (habshi) wrote:
So we can now burn coal to our hearts content as we are not
responsible for global warming
[snip]

Sigh.

Regardless of the effect (or lack) that CO2 in the atomsphere
has, there are very good reasons to decrease the burning of
coal. To mention but two:
- It's clear that it produces nasty health effects on those nearby.
It produces many 10's of thousands of deaths per year at least.
Depending on who you talk to, that might be 100's of thousands.
- There are many other things we could be doing with this stuff
besides putting a match to it. Chemical and plastics industries
can use it for feed stocks for many products, just as one example.

This is a topic that could really do with an injection of sense and
rational discussion. It seems to start at hysteria and insanity,
and then degrade rather quickly. That's really rather alarming
and sad about the whole thing.

Come on people! Let's make an effort to be sane about this.
Socks