Greenpeace targets incoming coal shipment at Pagbilao

Activists from Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, paint "Quit Coal" on the hull of 223-meter ship MV Sam John Spirit standing by to unload its cargo at the Pagbilao coal power plant in Quezon province, around 300 kms south of Manila 24 May 2008. Greenpeace calls on the Philippine government to halt all coal plant projects and coal expansion. Burning coal heavily emits carbon dioxide, one of the major causes of climate change

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[d0nc0nzpiracy]

haha, what do they use in the motor for the vessel? haha xD

[keysmmzero]

I'm surprised that they didn't sink the greenpeace vessel.

[weallknowitstrue]

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[4agrees]

co2lies.... the answer is... YES IT CHANGE SOMETHING... specially this percent in the atmosphere--- affecting the Ph in the oceans, cause-effect logic.

[c02lies]

PaulNautilus. The C02 hypotheses is just that - an hypotheses. It has no basis in emperical science what so ever. To date it has failed all emperical testing. How about some numbers... Atmospheric C02 = .038% IPCC say 4% is man made = .00152 Of the .00152% around 40 - 60% can be atributed to the building industry. This leaves around .00076% for Petrol, diesel, gas, coal etc... So lets say we cut that .00076% not just coal. Do you really think .00076% will change anything?

[c02lies]

Yes - I must agree with you on that point.

Black lung in coal miners was a major issue, just a asbestos etc... Theres a host of issues like these - but we have lerned from these mistakes.

Today coal is mind resposibly and burnt much more cleanly.

If you know anything about coal you would know that it's not the C02 or the soot etc.. it's the radioactivity that can be released. Although this is now a non issue as coal is burnt very cleanly these days.

C02 released is negligable.

[PaulNautilus]

c02lies, I am thinking for myself and I very much believe that coal is a source of carbon dioxide when burned up. And that excessive carbon dioxide emissions contribute to the dark blanket that covers our atmosphere preventing the bouncing back into outer space most of the solar radiation that the sun's rays provide. Worldwide, a big percentage of the carbon emissions come from diesel that runs the world's vehicles and carbon emissions that are continuously provided by coal plants.

[PaulNautilus]

You could note that the temperature rise spiked immediately after the age of the Industrial Revolution.

You say that coal is a source of cheap source of energy, then please enlighten me on how, worldwide, countries spend billions (that's with 9 zeroes) of taxpayers money for coal, whereas solar energy and wave energy can be harvested indefinitely with a reducing cost on any country's budget?

[PaulNautilus]

Indeed coal has raised standards of living worldwide when it started, but as time progressed, deaths could only be associated with it: from coal's mining, to the immediate area of a coal plant's vicinity. Tell me why would anyone build their homes next to coal plant.

[PaulNautilus]

I firmly believe, that coal will eventually bring any country's economics down and a sure ticket back to the stone age. P.S. send me the research material you believe 'FAILS all tests for coal causes climate change' and as how you put it 'ABSOLUTLY NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE'. And I'll send you material how coal does cause climate change.