MARYROSE02 Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 God help us from the greenies and lefties who would like Australia to take the moral high ground by destroying Australia's coal mining industry. How will Australia power its economy then? They don't care. They just want Australia to be able to 'hold its head up in the world community.' China would just source the extra coal it needs from our competitors. I notice that Germany is another big coal producer, that same Germany who is supposedly so against conventional and nuclear power. This is a list of countries by coal production in 2012, based mostly on the Statistical Review of World Energy published in 2013 by British Petroleum,[1] ranking countries with coal production larger than 10 millions tonnes. Shares are based on data expressed in tonnes oil equivalent. [h=2]Countries[/h] [TABLE=class: wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter] [TR=bgcolor: #ECECEC] [TH=class: headerSort]Rank[/TH] [TH=class: headerSort]Country/Region[/TH] [TH=class: headerSort]Coal production (million tonnes)[/TH] [TH=class: headerSort]share of total[2] (%)[/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD]—[/TD] [TD] World[/TD] [TD=align: left]7,864.7[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]1[/TD] [TD] China[/TD] [TD=align: left]3,650.0[/TD] [TD]46.4[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]2[/TD] [TD] United States[/TD] [TD=align: left]922.1[/TD] [TD]11.7[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]3[/TD] [TD] India[/TD] [TD=align: left]605.8[/TD] [TD]7.7[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]—[/TD] [TD] European Union[/TD] [TD=align: left]580.7[/TD] [TD]7.4[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4[/TD] [TD] Australia[/TD] [TD=align: left]431.2[/TD] [TD]5.5[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]5[/TD] [TD] Indonesia[/TD] [TD=align: left]386.0[/TD] [TD]4.9[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]6[/TD] [TD] Russia[/TD] [TD=align: left]354.8[/TD] [TD]4.5[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]7[/TD] [TD] South Africa[/TD] [TD=align: left]260.0[/TD] [TD]3.3[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]8[/TD] [TD] Germany[/TD] [TD=align: left]196.2[/TD] [TD]2.5 [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parley Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 0 degrees overnight in Melbourne and below freezing in regional victoria. Where is this global warming ? I'm freezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rallyman Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 0 degrees overnight in Melbourne and below freezing in regional victoria. Where is this global warming ? I'm freezing. Its ts no longer global warming its " climate change" keep up ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARYROSE02 Posted July 19, 2015 Author Share Posted July 19, 2015 Its ts no longer global warming its " climate change" keep up ! The reason they changed it to climate change was to accommodate the extreme cold once it became clear that the ice was not going to melt after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rallyman Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 The reason they changed it to climate change was to accommodate the extreme cold once it became clear that the ice was not going to melt after all. We simply don't have enough accurate data to say one way or another,there have been extreme weather swings from hot to cold a number of times, I was working with some reclaimed iron bark a few weeks ago and counting the growth rings it was in the region of 150 plus years old you could tell by these that there were wet season and dry season, probably no different to what we experiance today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akiralx Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 The reason they changed it to climate change was to accommodate the extreme cold once it became clear that the ice was not going to melt after all. It is the ice melting and entering the oceans which causes lower temperatures in the weather we're seeing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rallyman Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Too many reports saying we have a problem and too many saying we don't , how do we fully understand what is happening ? the earth is a few billion years old and has gone through many changes in that time , what caused the last ice age ? We we get fed so much BS in our daily lives now who really knows, its about making the global companies money today and they will produce reports to suite their own agenda, be it green energy is the way or more recently about the open cast mine approved on the Liverpool planes, saying that it won't affect the water table , where there is large sums of money involved there is corruption Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambethlad Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 I wish we could get some of that global warming in Melbourne. The last two nights have been the coldest in a couple of decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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