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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: isopatch who wrote (183752)5/6/2014 10:54:39 PM
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For me, coal is the devil. Twice the CO2 than natural gas on an energy-equivalent basis. Replacing coal with anything else is the low-hanging fruit as far as I am concerned.

To my mind it's criminal that Germany is shutting down its nuclear plants, both because that electricity will likely be replaced mainly by coal and because it strengthen's Putin's hand. Right now their energy policy is totally crazy - high solar subsidies (in a country that is severely sun-deficient) that have destabilized their utilities and caused high electricity prices, together with increased coal use that has served to increase CO2 emissions.

Now do I know exactly how increased CO2 levels will affect climate? Of course not - nobody does. But I do know that it (and methane) are both greenhouse gases, and higher greenhouse gas levels will almost certainly lead to more warming. (There are still uncertainties over issues like the offsetting effects of increased cloud cover in a hotter and moister environment). From my perspective we are running a science experiment here that could easily have a very bad outcome. Lots of very scary scenarios out there, like melting permafrost causing a large methane release leading to a disastrous forward-feedback loop.

It's incontrovertible that CO2 levels are at all-time highs over the last 800,000 years at least:

slate.com

I know this viewpoint is not at all popular on this thread. I myself was on the skeptical side about a decade ago until I studied the scientific evidence much more closely.

Peter
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