Earth Magazine, via Tyler Cowen:
“China alone loses between 100 million and 200 million tons of coal each year to mine fires . . . Second to China is India, where 10 million tons of coal burns annually in mine fires.”
Why is it that reasonable people recognize that pouring 200,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico is an environmental tragedy, but can also think that releasing 28 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year has no effect at all? Where on earth do they think this stuff goes? Does the law of conservation of mass no longer have any meaning?
I suppose science only works on stuff you can see. So much for radio, the atom, and the germ theory of medicine.
