Dexter Gold: Not far from here they did strip mining for gravel and sand the thin clay over lay was used to build Road beds across flood plains. The same type of busy bodies protested that operation also and like your coal mines ours are now profitable fish farms, Producing tons of farm raised cat fish and hundreds of decent jobs. Processing cat fish, a multi million dollar industry. Strip mining is the most economical and safest way to mine any material we need. The anti human crowd only deserve contempt.
Sharolyn Claybourn: No. Fossil fuels emit toxic mercury and other chemicals. Burning them adds to the atmosphere even more C02, which is warming the earth faster than at any time in geologic history. Yes, I want the change, so that younger generations can continue to enjoy this amazing planet.
Cassidy Pangrazio: if we dont do anything than nothing will be done
Nannie Kasee: if there is a fuel out there that can run our cars which are just as efficient! , (meaning this amount of fuel produces this amount of power) just as available, and cost about the same as gasoline. then sure why not. but the fact is theres not. all these alternative's we've heard about are not as available as oil, they cost alot to produce, and do not produce as much power as gasoline and diesel. for example ethanol which is made from corn, has to be grown, harvested, transported, and refined before its ready to go in a car. it takes about 1.3 gallons of oil to produce 1 gallon of ethanol. so why in the world would we want that? an by the way for all you enviromental nuts out there, there is no such thing as man made global warming. its already been proven to be a hoax. it does not exist. so calm down folks....Show more
Barton Sease: We need to stop using fossil fuels, but we have some promising alternatives on the horizon. Some vehicles (especially large and/or commercial ones) can run on natural gas (natural gas is normally a fossil fuel, but ! anything that can run on natural gas can probably run on bioga! s collected from manure or sewage). Look up thermal depolymerization for a way to turn virtually any biomatter (the current primary feedstock that I'm aware of is turkey processing byproducts) into petroleum and natural gas. We can replace coal power plants with nuclear, solar (photovoltaic and thermal), wind, hydro, biomass, and possibly other alternatives I am unaware of. We can increase efficiency (especially of transit and heating/cooling), saving large quantities of energy at little cost, and so on....Show more
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Alma Twomey: what you are missing is that the coal company's owned the land, and if they want to dig big holes in it and then fill them with water, who are they hurting , this is no different than the land you bought and dug a basement and then built a house on it, also dook 20,000 is a very low number, most estimates are over 35,000 and those are probably real real low
Monroe Rainey: I agree with Edward, I don't think strip m! ining (removing overburden and coal in strips, then using the waste to replace the adjacent already mined strip) is nearly as bad as mountain-top removal, where entire mountains are removed, destroying the topography completely. Mining is certainly necessary--as someone (undoubtedly a miner) once said, "If it wasn't grown, it was mined." The thing about coal mining is that it can destroy pristine country for the sake of producing something that may be damaging the climate.EDIT: No, your analogy is not very good. First, unless you live out in the middle of nowhere, you cannot just do what you want without getting government permission. When you build a house, you need building permits to make sure the building conforms to construction codes, you may also be limited on design or the type of buildings you are constructing because of zoning codes. If you do anything that messes with the water table you'll have other government agencies to deal with, and if you alter water c! ourses or pollute them you're asking for trouble. This is all true if ! you're building a house and basement, and it would still be true with a mine.Second, the mining company may NOT own the land. In the US there are patented and unpatented claims. If your claim is unpatented you have the right to mine the valuable material but do not own the land. It can be expensive and time consuming to patent claims, so there are many mines, even large ones, that are unpatented and the government owns the land. But whether or not the claim is patented, you will still need to file a plan of operations in order to do any mechanized work on the land, and that will require including a reclamation plan for when you are finished and posting of a bond to recover the reclamation costs, in case you decide to skip out on your responsibilities.
Angelyn Ducas: The warmies seem to hate everything that helps make our lives more enjoyable as they only seem to have stupid silly expensive green ideas to make our poor grandchildren suffer in a sea of ecotax!!As th! e prices of energy to cook and heat the home continue to sky rocket due to the global warming tax perhaps in the future grandchildren in your area could be quite fortunate to live near such a cheap source of natural energy.
Elinore Schlinker: I don't think we have much choice - we need to look for alternatives, because of rising demand for oil and because the world is running out of oil and other fossil fuels.We need to:1) Have an affordable and efficient public transport system, to encourage people not to use private vehicles.2) Look at alternative ways of working - using videoconferencing for meetings, working from home, so that people need to travel less in the first place.3) Develop other ways of fuelling vehicles which are not polluting and are renewable. Hydrogen cells do not pollute, but are not renewable either - they still need charging up from the electricity grid, so that too needs to be converted from fossil fuels to renewable energy.4) Under the present e! conomic system, there is a lot of money to be made from oil. So control! of this needs to be taken out of the hands of the big corporations and run democratically, so that decisions can be made rationally, for the interests of the planet, not the interests of politicians or oil companies. We need to invest in renewable energy resources - tidal, wind, solar, geothermal, wave power.The video below is also interesting - it is a party political broadcast made by the Scottish Socialist Party advocating a free, integrated public transport network....Show more
Warren Kotter: Most coal-pit water I'm familiar with is extremely acidic. Could you cite one of those "beautiful lakes" that exist where the EPA didn't have to force the coal company to do extensive remediation?
Charis Deguzman: This will not get me an F those to it may be concerned. See we need to find just about anybodies opinion we can on our topic that we chose. So you are my opinions i mean i have looked all over the internet looking for people that might have an opinion on this! topic and i could not find any so i decided to post it on yahoo. My teacher is okay with it and she is aware of my issue that i could not find any opinions on the topic. So once again thanks and i hope you can be my opinions....Show more
Charissa Bichsel: To whom it may concern, I was recently assigned an advertising project which asked the question;"Do you think Global Warming is exaggerated?"and i wanted to know if it would be possible to have some opinion, with reasons why.If you could reply as soon as possible, it would be highly appreciated.Thank youSuhaylah Fazal
Luis Mellon: If it wasn't for global warming, Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.Fortunately, Cro Magnon people learned to make fire and the smoke from their campsites melted the glaciers.
Annabell Bevier: Hi Gabe Over time fuel for transportation has become a by product of a barrel of oil For example the price of plastic products don't go up and down as the price of oil fluctuates ! Here's part of the list that oil plays in our lives http://www.ranken-e! nergy.com/Products%20from%20Pet... Hope you get your A good luck and have a great day...Show more
Reginald Maxi: I think we should continually look for alternative fuel sources but I don't think we're looking in the right areas. However, I think there will and should always be gasoline around in some capacity because there's over a century of vehicles and other items that were made for gasoline and you can't just 'ban' those items. And I mean real gasoline. Not the watered down 10% ethanol kind.
Melvin Nakama: Using less in itself would be a change for the better. Often called 'conservation' the advent of much higher miles per gallon standards, hybrid and all electric vehicles can help bring down the overall use of fossil fuels. At some point electric energy driven by solar and wind power will power most everything, using natural gas as the preferred backup. Coal and oil will have their place in the mix for another fifty years but at a lower and lower rate. ! These changes will be both political and economic. The short answer of course is that we certainly 'should'...as soon as possible....Show more
Mark Hovanes: This is not a global warming question, but strip mining is very terrible for coal. The coal gets hacked, pushed, and shoved, loaded, dumped, and eventually burned, ending up as CO2 in the air contributing to the greatest hoax ever falsely alleged by the US Congress. Strip mining is also hard on people in the surrounding area at the time (Dresden, Germany is very beautiful today but not when 20 thousand died in the 1945 fire-bombing) but that is not a global warming question either.
Idell Syed: Strip mining is not enough for energy demands. now they remove entire mountain tops to obtain coal. I don't think anyone thinks this is good (except for the energy industry)http://conservationreport.files.wordpress.com/2009...altering of natural landscapes is typically not a good thing. no matter how hard you try to d! efend the status quo, someone out there is just trying to make a buck o! ff of resource exploitation and will go through any means to keep making money. you tie this in with global warming enthusiasts, but many people do not like strip mines or coal mining in general. when people don't have to die to get energy, it will be a better world for all of us.EDIT ADDITIONAL DETAILSyou are comparing digging a basement and scarring hectares of land as equivalent. Cant argue with that logic. I mean, don't we all exploit our home properties by destroying them?@ James Pyou make a good point. If something doesn't affect you personally in a negative way, it must not be bad. thanks for your insight!
Rachell Meese: I burn wet wood fires on purpose to add smoke flavor to my baby back ribs, pork shoulder, and other meats. I don't buy offsets because global warming is a myth created by that snake oil salesman Al Gore. Al should know that the only way to eat a pulled pork BBQ sandwich is to smoke the pork shoulder first, and that means setting fire to a tree! . He's a disgrace to the state of Tennessee.
Antonia Boomershine: The warmers hate coal and hate strip mining, but I come from the midwest where there is alot of coal and many years ago just west of here, strip mines dotted the earth, taking that evil coal out and heating homes with it, today those strip mines are beautiful lakes with thousands and thousands of fish, frogs, birds, and everything else that lives by a lake, so is what we have done here evil and horrible like the anti coal crowd tells us?
Lillie Yarde: No. It takes MILLIONS of years to create fossil fuels (which is why they get their name) and we're using them at a rate much faster than nature can make it.Therefore, we need na alternate energy source.
Sherita Gallati: No, we should not continue to use fossil fuels to power our vehicles. But there are billion invested in keeping the status quo. The government will go to war to maintain the status quo because oil brings in big TAX dollars to t! he government. So I think the governments resistance to change, might ! be the biggest problem.I want the change. I want to see 100% alternative fuels used. I think bio fuels made from algae is the future, as well as electricity generated from solar, wind and tidal energies....Show more
Vita Moodie: Yes. By all means, we should continue to use fossil fuels for our vehicles. We have hundreds of years of fuel left. When the time comes that we are in short supply of fossil fuels, the private sector/free market.... NOT the government..... will develop an alternative.I would gladly change energy sources for my vehicle if the price was cheaper with little or no taxpayer welfare/subsidies and performance remained the same....Show more
Vern Serratos: you are able to desire to seen practice unit the documentary "Torturing Democracy," which the Bush administration in fact stated might desire to now not be aired till at last Bush left place of artwork. (EDIT: I study the object incorrect. The administration did now not somewhat say somethin! g. yet PBS' investment replaced into slashed whilst they presented it, and then PBS did now not air it.) lots of the themes the Bush administration did: - released an attack with out the approval of the UN, defying UN agreements. - released an attack against Iraq on defective information, then refused to retreat (over the final 5 years, a million.2 million Iraqis and four,000 American infantrymen have died because of this secure practices rigidity presence). - broke the policies of the Geneva convention, that are the worldwide policies for war, by employing technique of torturing and mistreating danger loose captives at Guantanamo Bay (it somewhat is what the documentary is approximately) - suspended First substitute Rights with u . s . of u . s . a . PATRIOT Act, which carried out on the fears of submit-9/11 persons. (the Patriot Act replaced into voted in in straightforward words some days after 9/11, and adjusted into an quite long record that have been written correct i! nterior the previous 9/11. those balloting did now not have time to exa! mine the record, and voted often out of hassle.) Many, many distinctive motives that I, as in straightforward words a pupil, don't have the understanding to cite. Kucinich gave 35 motives for impeachment. The above, as properly the reality that, are sufficient for me.
Ariel Arons: Should we continue to use fossil fuels to power our vehicles? My opinion is NO. We need to start conserving fossil fuels for those things which only fossil fuels can provide. We should be moving away from these fuels. We need to start looking at teh way our cities and towns are constructed. We need to provide means that people can travel long distances by a train or other mass transit device. moving walk ways, mono rail etc. That people are only required to walk a moderate distance to get what they need.Do I want to change? I would change if it were possible. As our society is constructed today it is not possible for me to change....Show more
Cassey Hollinghurst: Presently we have no c! hoice. All atemps to develop other means of fueling autos has been torpedoed by big auto and the gas companies. Look what happened to GMs EV1.
Coleman Senn: Hydrogen is not the answer and although wind and solar are already in use the nationwide production scale up required to supply not only home power but mass vehicle charging just isn’t there. It most assuredly IS there if each individual constructs (or purchases) his own self sustaining alternative fuel vehicle and alternative energy source. The cost to get Hydrogen “Gas Pump Ready†is about 4 times that of any fossil fuel or an equivalent synthetic product (as with WW II germany). High pressure Hydrogen is difficult to handle and store, liquid Hydrogen almost impossible, even with current aerospace technology. Our spacecraft are on the cutting edge of Liquid Hydrogen usage at costs not realistic for mass public applications. Forget Hydrogen. There is a viable alternative and the technology was here and ! proven in the 1970’s when a team of students from Washington State Un! iversity drove a modified pickup truck powered by wood gas (heated bark and wood chips) from Seattle to Miami. Also steam powered automotive engines have been around for over a hundred years (ask Jay Leno). Now with the wood-stove industry supplying millions of tons of wood pellets made from wood scrap and other solid waste, the technology and production facilities are already in place, but the petro-establishment (that includes the government) is preaching alcohol and hydrogen based fuels, more ways they can hang on to financial control of a trillion dollar fuel industry. The use of wood pellet and solid waste would put the manufacture of motor fuel back in the hands of the mom and pop entrepreneur instead of the government backed mega corporations. This is my own article, original and not copied, feel free to use it. Gunny T...Show more
Oda Mauson: Sadly any rational expression will get you an F.I think the Climate sensitivity to CO2 has been PROFOUNDLY overstated! for purely political reasons.So I'd go with something like.As Oil supplies diminish, rising cost will promote alternatives.High Energy taxes are Economic Suicide. Prosperity lies in the unseen hand.Only Fools fix the things that fix themselves.~~~~Now the problem is that Public Schools as a rule are propaganda mills for AGW.So presenting a genuine alternative view to the 'crisis' is not likely to get you a good grade. However if you explain that you personally BELIEVE in the crisis, but just wanted to do a poster reflecting Denier idiocy, then you might get away with it. ;-)Good Luck....Show more
Jude Colbenson: There are alternatives. Cars can run on hydrogen or electricity. Biofuels can be made from non-food sources such as waste, trees planted to sequester carbon dioxide and algae.PQThat from someone who says that [(390ppm - 270pp,) / 270ppm] * 100% = 0.01% and who says that nuclear power will kill more people than WWII). You can be assured that an irrational ex! pression will get you an F....Show more
Jana Sakasegawa: Yes.And ! we should--- and are transitioning many of our vehicles to natural gas, which is cheaper, extremely plentiful and pollutes even less than gasoline or diesel.
Lashawn Zabarkes: Hi Suhaylah,Is global warming exaggerated? It depends very much on whom you get your information from. The media is certainly guilty of some wild claims and scare stories and there is a huge amount of confusion, much of which is spread via the internet.The overwhelming majority of people don’t really understand enough about global warming to be able to offer an accurate perspective. And as a result they often end up spreading wrong information around. Skeptics and deniers who deliberately introduce false claims to the debate don’t help this.We know that the world is warming up, this much is undeniable. We know that humans are the cause of most of this recent warming but we can’t say precisely how much is caused by us because there are lots of complicated factors involved.100 years ago! the average temperature right around the world was 13.588°C and today it is 14.574°C, so in this time the temperature has risen by almost 1°C.Because we are now producing more greenhouse gases and due to the physical properties of these gases, we expect to see more warming in the future. Again, there are many complicated factors involved so we can’t say just how much warming will occur but it seems probable that in another 100 years the average temperature will have increased by about another 2.5°CIf you want to get accurate information about climate change and global warming than it’s always a good idea to obtain that info from reliable sources. Stick to the scientific websites and journals and read the reports that are coming out of many of the world’s universities.Maybe you have some specific concerns about global warming, some aspects you think may or may not be exaggerated. If you care to add details to this question or post another question, other users ! of this forum and myself will endeavour to answer your points and put t! hem in their correct perspective for you.
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