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All of these coal plants have had their retirement announced.
Muslims are like canaries in the coal mine.
My grandfather was a coal miner.
We know now that that is not the case because of the greenhouse gases that coal produces.
This is a vital capability since some asteroids are as dark as coal and can be difficult or impossible to spot with other telescopes.
Bill Gates is in China working with engineers, there's 40 different companies that are working together to try to race to build the first reactor that runs on waste, that can't melt down and is cheaper than coal.
And while nuclear kind of edges out coal, the thing is, people don't really fear coal in the same way they fear nuclear, which really operates on our unconscious.
Of course, in Japan, they took all their nuclear plants offline, replaced them with coal, natural gas, oil burning, and they're only expected to bring online about a third to two-thirds.
They're beset by these terrible economic trends, built around industries like coal and steel that make it harder for folks to get ahead.
But even in countries as recently turning the corner towards being in the developed world, in China, we see the difficulty that President Xi has as he begins to un-employ so many people in his coal and mining industries who see no future for themselves.
China has made the choice, and will make the choice, to run on coal.
Eastern Europe, still very heavily committed to natural gas and to coal, and with natural gas that comes from Russia, with all of its entanglements.
If you look at China, and you ask yourself why has coal been important to it, you have to remember what China's done.
India also needs to meet the needs of its own people, and it's going to do that by burning coal.
When we look at the EIA's projections of coal burning in India, India will supply nearly four times as much of its energy from coal as it will from renewables.
So what can we do to stop coal's emissions in time?
Between now and 2040, 800 to 1,600 new coal plants are going to be built around the world.
This week, between one and three one-gigawatt coal plants are being turned on around the world.
So every day that you go home thinking that you should do something about global warming, at the end of that week, remember: somebody fired up a coal plant that's going to run for 50 years and take away your ability to change it.
China's building 800 gigawatts of coal, 400 gigawatts of hydro, about 200 gigawatts of nuclear, and on an energy-equivalent basis, adjusting for intermittency, about 100 gigawatts of renewables.
800 gigawatts of coal.
CA: But there is a concern that the fake news is associated with tyrannical regimes, and when you see an uprise in fake news that is a canary in the coal mine that there may be dark times coming.
Now, admittedly, and blessedly, the number of girls involved is still quite small, but you could see them as canaries in a coal mine, telling us something important about the way girls see their bodies.
My tongue goes dry the same way we died, becoming ash, having never been coal.
The 84 gigatons reduced from onshore wind turbines, for example, results from the electricity generated from wind farms that would otherwise be produced from coal or gas-fired plants.
The idea of public education was for coal miners, who would work in the coal mines all day, then they'd come home and they should have the dignity to be able to read a novel and understand it.
So when giant clams start to disappear from coral reefs, their absence can serve as an alarm bell for scientists to start paying attention, similar to the canary in a coal mine.
Like my friend who says he's not ever going to give up his SUV until they stop building coal plants in China.
So it's had this very, sort of rich, working-class culture, and it's famous for its Welsh male voice choirs and rugby and its coal.
But when I was a teenager, the coal mines and the steelworks closed, and the entire area was devastated.
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