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  Very very serious and threatening... and

  Still not a binary "deadline". A reduction is still a reduction. There are still potential carbon uptake mechanisms based on agriculture, river run off, etc that can affect the equation. With millions of people threatened, will coal trains fail to arrive on time? It could start happening.

  Less is still less, better is still better. Keep breathing everybody!On It's too late to stop climate change, argues Ross Gelbspan -- so what do we do now? posted 1 year, 11 months ago 45 Responses

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  Yes, let's get a grip

  1 square mile = 640 acres

  So less than a square mile in forests that probably have several hundred square miles. What about the equivalent amount of coal to be mined and burned for those 55,000 houses? Acid rain? Sulfer? Lead? Mercury? And run the comparison for at least 30 years.On Belief in free lunches, tooth fairy still strong posted 1 year, 11 months ago 10 Responses

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  More swagger than evidence

  Peak oil, of course, is not about price. It is about the permanent decline in world wide rate of production. It's been flat to down for about 2 years now and the price is very high. Hmm, how are those Saudi spigots doing? North Sea? Mexico? United States? Southeast Asia?

  Peak oil realists will only have crow if the world production begins a substantial and sustained upward trend lasting at least 5-10 years. Anybody betting on that?

  PS: Brazil finding a few months worth of oil under 7 thousand feet of water and several more thousand feet of salt won't even make a dent. It won't even show up for 3-4 years at least.On We have $100-a-barrel oil due to speculation and fear posted 1 year, 12 months ago 54 Responses

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  What's killing us -- ourselves?

  Just to caution against blaming those nasty plants. Yes coal is evil, I agree.

  However, I believe transportation accounts for the greatest portion of GWG emissions in the United States. No?

  So, it's cars, trucks, trains, planes, boats. IOW, our personal trips, purchases, and consumption are "right up there!"

  RoyOn Three new sites track individual power plants and your connection to them posted 1 year, 12 months ago 3 Responses

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  The Atlantic now styled as Intellectual Museum

  The 150 years issue is the last I receive on my canceled subscription. Just reading the magazine is a self hypnotic experience. Their prose style is excruciatingly slow and deliberate which must have been elegant a century ago. Now it just feels irrelevant, like they haven't noticed the internet, blogs, or even remote controls. I suppose it says something uncomplimentary about their envisioned/target audience. Sad really...

  Roy On The intelligentsia isn't helping the public understand the urgency of the climate crisis posted 2 years ago 10 Responses