Standing on the Bridge

Yesterday Kadizzle stood on the bridge over the railroad tracks in Denver.  No, the plan was not to jump. The plan was to watch the coal train pass underneath until the end of the train. No doubt the train load of coal had come from the Powder River Basin and was headed to some power plant.  At first tKadizzle assumed it was a 100 car train, which is typical, but then he concluded it must be about 125 coal cars long.  Each car holds 100 tons.  So do the math, that is 125 thousand tons of coal.  It took a long time for that train moving at about five to ten miles per hour to pass under Kadizzle.  As he stood there he though about how quickly that coal would be burnt to make electricity.  He made up his mind to do a calculation when he got home.  How much coal per hour do we burn in this country? The amount is staggering.  If the calculations are correct the United States burns 3.1 million tons of coal per day.  What that means is that train that passed under Kadizzle will be burnt up in about an hour.  It took about twenty minutes for the train to go under the bridge. To look at that much coal an imagine it burning almost as fast as it went by was a shocking thought. No you have complete idiots that think global warming is not happening. If those idiots would give the matter some thought, perhaps they would think differently.  About every three miles there is a super tanker heading toward our country with oil for us to burn.  This does not include the oil we produce domestically.  Add that to the coal, and the natural gas, and just try to imagine what we are putting into the air.  At any given moment there are six thousand planes in the air spewing the kerosene they burn into the clouds.  Our planet is on a course to disaster. Remember this is just the United States.  Think about China.

How long did it take to put that carbon into the ground?  It took over five million years to put the carbon for the coal into the ground.  Does any reasonable person think you can release into the air something that it took five million years to take out, and have no problem.  We are doing in a hundred years what took the Earth five million years to clean up.  Do you think we might have a problem?