wild Coal fires in China burn 120 million tons of coal a year, emitting 360 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. This amounts to 2-3% of the annual worldwide production of CO2 from fossil fuels, or as much as emitted from all of the cars and light trucks in the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal
2006-11-14 04:17:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
I believe the largest man associated contributor to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is actually cattle/hot/chicken farms. The methane produced from these wasteful, and inhumane industries is staggering.
But, in spite of everything being spouted about "global warming" there is not a concensus about how much of the climate change is man made, and how much is because the earth does this in cycles. The earth gets hotter and cools off naturally. For us to think we have that much influence over the natural order of things is egocentric.
How about more science and less fear mongering.
2006-11-14 04:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by Monica M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe. Certainly there are many reasons we would want to put out coal files other than because of global warming.
2006-11-14 12:22:14 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe but do we really want to add to it?
2006-11-14 12:25:02 · answer #3 · answered by Karrien Sim Peters 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess, maybe...
2006-11-14 12:43:37 · answer #4 · answered by Gunslinger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋