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Truth the first casualty in the War Against Coal : Comments

By Graham Young, published 10/7/2018

Advocacy is core business for think tanks, but when does advocacy become propaganda? When the think tank is the grandly named Australia Institute, is one answer.

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Coal and other fossil fuels create some very high costs, not immediately apparent:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/07/11/california-will-have-a-terrible-choice-save-cliff-side-homes-or-public-beaches-from-rising-seas/?utm_term=.07348b895d27

Take a look at the photo of house on cliff being undermined.

Or:

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/28/17475342/antarctica-ice-melt-thaw-climate-change-sea-level

Provides graphics which give good diagrams explaining just how much melting is happening.

Or:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/06/africa-may-have-witnessed-its-all-time-hottest-temperature-thursday-124-degrees-in-algeria/?utm_term=.ebf3b74dbf8e

Many countries hit by extreme hot conditions just lately, not great as 50% chance of an el nino later in year. Temperatures after an el nino tend to go up a notch.

In roughly same period Japan was hit by a Typhoon killing over 150 with a few score people missing. With higher temperature more water vapour is created and often falls as a rain bomb.

Fossil fuel emissions cause death and respiratory problems.

During the Pliocene period greenhouse gases were about the same as they are currently, conditions were not conducive to life as we know it.

https://climatenewsnetwork.net/past-warming-shows-2c-brink-may-be-close/?utm_source=Climate+News+Network&utm_campaign=076e6c1925-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_10_09_51&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1198ea8936-076e6c1925-38767669

So, if just taking into account the tip of the ice berg in relation to costs/benefits of coal or Queensland registrations it depends on how it is interpreted, but, when viewing the mass of the iceberg, coal is horrendously expensive in lives lost and hidden financial costs incurred.
Posted by ant, Saturday, 14 July 2018 8:35:56 AM
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I watched Nigel Farage addressing journalists from the British Media and he said the ice mass at the pole
had thickened up by 60% and they were having a record cold winter.

That seems to fly in the face of this Poles melting,sea rising,global warming idea.

Once people start getting paid huge amounts of money because they have jobs connected to global warming studies,
they have a very strong monetary motivation, to keep the idea of global warming going. Politicians also get elected and
earn huge salaries by supporting the ideology of global warming.

Impartial opinions with expertise. are hard to come by.
Posted by CHERFUL, Saturday, 21 July 2018 9:15:48 PM
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