Coal is not only the largest fossil fuel reservoir of carbon dioxide, it is the dirtiest fuel. Coal is polluting the world’s oceans and streams with mercury, arsenic and other dangerous chemicals. The dirtiest trick that governments play on their citizens is the pretense that they are working on “clean coal” or that they will build power plants that are “capture ready” in case technology is ever developed to capture all pollutants. The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trainsWe all remember "clean coal," right?
The scientist who coordinated the UN's most recent report on climate change says the situation is far worse than they had thought. That last report failed to take a few, key factors into account, he says. Uh oh...
