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2007-08-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Chinese Coal Minre Fires Pushing Global Warming?

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Posted by Bobby 2007-08-26 13:15|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Sorry, no "r" in the word "mine".

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-26 13:28|| 2007-08-26 13:28|| Front Page Top

#2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_fire

Centralia, Pennsylvania fire, which has been burning since 1962. Of the hundreds of mine fires in the United States burning today, most are found in the state of Pennsylvania.

thousands of inextinguishable mine fires are burning, especially in China and India

Australia's Burning Mountain, the oldest known coal fire, has burned for 6,000 years

Posted by john frum 2007-08-26 13:37|| 2007-08-26 13:37|| Front Page Top

#3 The Chinese fires also make a big, hidden contribution to global warming through the greenhouse effect, scientists said. Each year they release 360 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as much as all the cars and light trucks in the United States.

As always, China leads the way.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-26 13:51|| 2007-08-26 13:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Too bad there isn't some way to sequester carbon dioxide in these burning mines. It might even put out the fires.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-26 13:52|| 2007-08-26 13:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, coal fires result in global cooling. PBS showed a documentary on this pointing out that the human activites causing global warming and those causing global cooling are in near balance.

Any attempt to cut out one set of activities is as likely to trigger an ice age as anything else.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-08-26 13:53|| 2007-08-26 13:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Luckily, China is exempt from the limitations of the Kyoto treaty, so it doesn't matter how much CO2 or other pollution they produce.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-08-26 18:47|| 2007-08-26 18:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Guam K57 Caller > asked host the question "Do the people of Guam wish to die for the United States", ala proposed US military buildup. *MVARIETY > JAPAN TO CONTROL MOST OF BUILDUP MONEY. Other - PROPOSED AIRFIELD [light? planes] MAY BE BUILT NEAR RACE WAY [Guam's Route 15]. Since CHINA has formally but quietly asked the USA to divide the Pacific into two differentiated "Sphere of Influence-Control", WESTPAC controlled by CHINA, EASTPAC by USA, to my parent, relatives, and friends for many years now I've said a similar question must be asked "Do the people of Guam, ec. [WESTPAC]wish to live under Communist China?"m espec under the risk of being forcibly removed back to mainland China to be worked to death in the camps and industrial factories???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-26 21:00|| 2007-08-26 21:00|| Front Page Top

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