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Truth the first casualty in the War Against Coal : Comments
By Graham Young, published 10/7/2018Advocacy 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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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.