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 Stories About: coal AND energy AND James Hansen AND mining
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Global warming and the Holocaust
Is the analogy between climate change and Hitler's atrocities appropriate? |
David Roberts |
26 Nov 2007 |
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| Andy Revkin has an interesting post on Dot Earth about global warming and Holocaust analogies. On Oct. 22, climate scientist James Hansen testified before the utilities board in his home state of Iowa. He said, among 59 pages of other stuff, this: If we cannot stop the building of more coal-fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains -- no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceab ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, James Hansen, mining (all these topics) |
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