<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for King Coal’s year of rejection by banks, judges, and a lot of other folks]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Pangolin http://www.grist.org/article/the-big-lump-gets-thumped/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:27:03 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/the-big-lump-gets-thumped/1 A Virtual Coal Tax?

There isn't actually a tax on coal burning specifically but it looks like the financial markets can see the writing on the wall. Inside closed doors thier science consultants aren't about to refute James Hansen.

Coal plants WILL be bulldozed and abandoned. If the weather gets bad fast enough coal executives will face a "virtual" torches and pitchforks treatment.

Things are happening "faster than expected;" good things as well as bad things.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> A Virtual Coal Tax?

There isn't actually a tax on coal burning specifically but it looks like the financial markets can see the writing on the wall. Inside closed doors thier science consultants aren't about to refute James Hansen.

Coal plants WILL be bulldozed and abandoned. If the weather gets bad fast enough coal executives will face a "virtual" torches and pitchforks treatment.

Things are happening "faster than expected;" good things as well as bad things.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Comment #2 by morganmghee http://www.grist.org/article/the-big-lump-gets-thumped/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:24:00 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/the-big-lump-gets-thumped/2 Good and Bad

I'm glad you brought that up.(and the timeline noted above is an encouraging read also) We won't need to wait nearly as long to see the positive results of these measures as we did to see the devastating results of not having them. Nature is MUCH better at bouncing back than it is falling down. I hope people take this as encouragement to continue and not proof we were wrong and stop the effort.

]]> Good and Bad

I'm glad you brought that up.(and the timeline noted above is an encouraging read also) We won't need to wait nearly as long to see the positive results of these measures as we did to see the devastating results of not having them. Nature is MUCH better at bouncing back than it is falling down. I hope people take this as encouragement to continue and not proof we were wrong and stop the effort.

]]> Comment #3 by Bill Hewitt http://www.grist.org/article/the-big-lump-gets-thumped/ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:25:19 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/the-big-lump-gets-thumped/3 Coal Takes Some Lumps ...

... was the title of my post from February at my blog on climate change for the Foreign Policy Association.  The chronology here is most useful.

]]> Coal Takes Some Lumps ...

... was the title of my post from February at my blog on climate change for the Foreign Policy Association.  The chronology here is most useful.

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