Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change

[Locutus]

JudeClemente ‏@JudeClemente

@goldmanprize 700 million Indians lack access to modern energy services...nobody at @nytimes is one of them.


DHANBAD, India — Decades of strip mining have left this town in the heart of India’s coal fields a fiery moonscape, with mountains of black slag, sulfurous air and sickened residents.

But rather than reclaim these hills or rethink their exploitation, the government is digging deeper in a coal rush that could push the world into irreversible climate change and make India’s cities, already among the world’s most polluted, even more unlivable, scientists say.

“If India goes deeper and deeper into coal, we’re all doomed,” said Veerabhadran Ramanathan, director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and one of the world’s top climate scientists. “And no place will suffer more than India.”


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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/w...could-tip-balance-on-climate-change.html?_r=0

 

[taxslave]

Quick tax the west some more.

 

[Nuggler]

Buncha leftists :evil3:

 

[darkbeaver]

and one of the world’s top climate scientists-----------and is also one of the worlds leading readers of chicken guts

 

[EagleSmack]

Exempt!


"While the United States and China announced a landmark agreement that includes new targets for carbon emissions, and Europe has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent, India, the world’s third-largest emitter, has shown no appetite for such a pledge."

“India’s development imperatives cannot be sacrificed at the altar of potential climate changes many years in the future,” India’s power minister, Piyush Goyal, said at a recent conference in New Delhi in response to a question. “The West will have to recognize we have the needs of the poor.”

 

[Walter]

JudeClemente ‏@JudeClemente

@goldmanprize 700 million Indians lack access to modern energy services...nobody at @nytimes is one of them.


DHANBAD, India — Decades of strip mining have left this town in the heart of India’s coal fields a fiery moonscape, with mountains of black slag, sulfurous air and sickened residents.

But rather than reclaim these hills or rethink their exploitation, the government is digging deeper in a coal rush that could push the world into irreversible climate change and make India’s cities, already among the world’s most polluted, even more unlivable, scientists say.

“If India goes deeper and deeper into coal, we’re all doomed,” said Veerabhadran Ramanathan, director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and one of the world’s top climate scientists. “And no place will suffer more than India.”


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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/w...could-tip-balance-on-climate-change.html?_r=0

Stupid Indians.

 

[Goober]

and one of the world’s top climate scientists-----------and is also one of the worlds leading readers of chicken guts

There was a valid point to reading entrails before going to War.
Most never realized it. Same still applies.

 

[Nuggler]

Here's the important part:.........700 million.

8O

 

[Goober]

Here's the important part:.........700 million.

8O

1.25 Billion.
1.5 Billion by 2030.
Climate change is coming so head for the high ground.

 

[EagleSmack]

Good comment from a NYT reader...


"India needs a leader like Obama who can slow down the economy, limit the number of poor who are able to enter the middle class and keep the middle class stagnant so they cannot afford to consume more. Only the political class like Obama (White House, Air Force One), Deblasio (Gracie Mansion and 3 black extended SUVs) Al Gore (Two Mansions including one of the largest in the country, and a Private Jet) should be able to live in large homes and use massive vehicles to move themselves around. You, the average citizen, needs to cut back and live more modestly on your ever declining wages and higher taxes and government fees. "