[LINK] the weather makers

[Alan L Tyree]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:37:05 +1000
Stewart Fist <stewart_fist at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Alan wrote
> 
> > 
> > Noticed two items in this morning's SMH. One a "calculation" that
> > coal reserves will be depleted within 20 years. This surprised me
> > since I thought that we were talking much longer horizons.
> 
> this has to be the bullshit claim of all bullshit claims
> 
> The whole of the Sydney sandstone basin, extending north as far as the
> open-cut mines in Queensland, are underlaid by a few metres of coal of
> varying qualities.
> 
> Anyone claiming 20 years must be measuring the currently-available
> open-cut coal within the bounds of existing leases.

Yeah, well the newpaper report was very short on details. The last I
heard, I thought that we had 300+ years of coal. There is a slight
disparity!

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