: re: China’s Energy Plans Will Worsen Climate Change, Greenpeace Says

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:27 AM
Subject: re: China’s Energy Plans Will Worsen Climate Change, Greenpeace Says
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

   Over the last 200 years, and at an ever-accelerating pace, we have pumped gigatons of carbon from the fossil pool into our atmosphere and oceans. This is now manifest as acidified oceans and deranged climate.  We need urgently to reverse this, sequestering carbon back from the atmosphere. And the ideal form in which to sequester carbon is coal. It's dense, it's non-volatile and it has been proven to be stable for hundreds of millions of years at a time. Nothing else comes close. To go on mining and burning (or gasifying) coal in the 21st century is--as professor Stephen Chu put it--an abomination.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/world/asia/greenpeace-says-chinas-energy-plans-exacerbate-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0