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Originally Posted by RustyLugNut
I have little issue with the whole global warming agenda other than it places all the blame of said warming on CO2. Severe curtailing of CO2 emissions will not stop global warming as such. Even the experts admit this. So what point is it to cripple our economies without a real plan to replace our energy needs with something more realistic than the effusive renewable energy as it is produced today?
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*We're experiencing climate change.
*Man-made carbon dioxide is accelerating the process.
*The CO2 already in the atmosphere will be there 1,000 years.
*The ideal scenario is to end fossil-fuel combustion immediately (if we could)
*Then begin removing the CO2 which is in the atmosphere,and try to get it down closer to pre-industrial levels.
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The average global temp. is 1.5F above pre-industrial.
If we turn off coal-fired power plants we're guaranteed another 1.5F in about a year,when tropospheric sulfate aerosols (which are presently reflecting sunlight) settle out,lowering the albedo of the upper reaches of the troposphere and we begin absorbing more infrared which can't escape.
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We're already crippling the economy with coal.It's been superannuated with renewables.
The Southern Company for instance,has a Rodemacher,Louisiana coal-fired power plant which burns 25,000-short-tons of coal/day.It requires a 6,000-mile roundtrip from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming for 2-trains a day to fuel it,and each 5.5-years pays for coal,a cost equal to the $2-billion construction price of the plant.
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The cheapest new coal plant is 4.1-cents/kW-h,when you can buy solar at 2.44-cents kW-h,as is done in India.The sunlight makes the 93,000,000-mile trip to Earth at no cost,for the life of the planet.Build it and it will come.
Adam Smith would vomit if he'd lived to see how stupid things have become.