Rep. Shimkus: The 1972 Clean Air Act Hurt Peabody (Now The Richest Coal Company In The World)

[meercatdotcom]

Rep Shimkus, more jobs were lots through cut cutting measures in the coal industry than any clean air act. How come you never said anything then?

[SoIllini]

Yeah, but what a good looking assistant behind him

[DarkSoldier010]

Man, I wonder how much he's getting from the coal and oil industries to put down the clean air act?

[cwell70]

I grew up in the 70's hearing how we were all going to be frozen by 1995! Global Warming, no one's buying so let's call it Climate Change. Sell your junk science to China if they get on board I will too.

[greyflcn]

re: cwell70

==I grew up in the 70's hearing how we were all going to be frozen by 1995! Global Warming, no one's buying so let's call it Climate Change. Sell your junk science to China if they get on board I will too.==

As if you cared about real science.

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[chris7394123]

There is no denying the trend of global temperature increase. It is supported by vast amounts of data.

[kimberleycalling]

Jobs versus action on climate change?!? Who is this fool? If we don't take massive and immediate action on climate change jobs wont mean a thing. He's got no idea as there are more jobs in energy efficiency, solar and wind than will be lost by reducing the use of coal and oil.

[anoniab]

kimberleycalling-I don't buy this any more than I do CO2 warming, but the administration is talking about putting all that sulfur back into the atmosphere now because they believe it cools the atmosphere. Would you prefer they do it at government expense, or get it done for free by removing the emissions controls on coal-fired plants?

[kimberleycalling]

You might want to watch again and read the notes in the sidebar. Unless I'm mistaken nobody is talking about putting sulfur in the atmosphere.

The rise in CO2 directly correlates to the rising global temperature. It is a property of CO2 that it will hold and trap heat in the atmosphere. there are no other mechanisms at work which can be found that would be heating the planet so we must conclude that CO2 is behind the rising average global temperature.

[anoniab]

kimberleycalling-I didn't say it was in the video. It was recently reported that Obama's new science advisor is seriously considering it. NASA has an article going back as far as July 27, 2006 on the subject: "Adding Sulfur to the Atmosphere Proposed to Ease Global Warming" They've had sulfur trading programs to reduce sulfur emissions and if what they say is true, then we shouldn't be trying to mess with CO2 either - they don't have a clue as to what they are doing.

[kimberleycalling]

Ah - not being American, I'm not up with this. I'm not for geo-engineering myself at this point as the risks, especially with sulfur, of other problems are too big I would have thought. CO2 emissions are another matter though. We can only benefit in the long term in every sense if we move to clean, green energy sources and work on energy efficiency.

[anoniab]

Check out the AP article "Obama looking at cooling air to fight warming"

If what they say is true, tinkering with CO2 levels is likely to back fire as well. Water vapor has a much greater influence on holding in the heat than CO2 does.