Good news for all those concerned w/ coal issues; Britain goes a week without coal power for the first time since the Industrial Revolution - CBBC Newsround .
Imagine 22nd century. In whatever way you chose. Then try to fit coal (mining to burning to ash disposal) into that picture. I cannot do it without giggling. It will begin one slightly longer than average human lifetime from now.
This may refer to cremation being most common human-remains disposal method. Or not. How is a fella to know?
[Thread hijack alert] Because of the high carbon cost of human cremation, my state has just legalized a greener alternative, human composting: Washington may become first state to legalize human composting | The Seattle Times Human composting: Washington set to legalize green burial alternative (Actually, not quite yet law, but still sitting on the Governor's desk awaiting his signature. He has been too busy jetting around the country campaigning for POTUS on a Climate Change platform, to have signed this yet.) [/Thread hijack alert]
Will there be enough CO2 to offset the coming Maunder Minimum?@8 In recent 'sun is as hot as it is' times, icky glaciations have happened when CO2 was lower. Whether one supposes that atmos CO2 (like now) insures against icky glaciations depends on what one reads.. Over which I have no control, but see iceagenow But there also could be seen primary-literature articles. Which I am this close to never linking again. Damn kids. But yeah, fundamentally, any future glaciation would be icky, as our human enterprise depends on dragging dense and portable nutrients from soils we don't understand under climates we cannot predict. Damn kids, fabulously immune to knowledge that might keep your descendants alive....
