Report: Climate change 'worst-case scenario' ruled out

American Thinker ^ | 02/09/2018 | Rick Moran

[dsrtsage]

Women and minorities hardest hit

[armourenthusiast]

"the climate will still destabilize, wreaking havoc on the planet.

As opposed to unstable climate?"

We need a stable genius to figure this out.

[DuncanWaring]

The basic issue has to do with coal. Quite simply, the more we burn, the faster we destroy the atmosphere.

The Powder River coal mines in northeast Wyoming/southeast Montana currently produce about 350 million tons of coal per year, roughly 5% of the overall global output.

That works out to roughly 1 million tons per day.

One million tons per day means 100 freight trains, each made up of 100 cars, each car carrying 100 tons. One of those trains every 15 minutes, 24 hours per day.

There's enough coal there to produce at that rate since the time of Christ, until now, and for another 500 years.

That one deposit is only a small fraction of the overall planet's reserves.

And the reasonable expectation has to be that all that carbon was once in the atmosphere.