There's a lot to write about at the moment, so forgive me if I occasionally ignore important topics. They'll have another turn in due course.
… much of it at the price of hard labour.
Modern climate misapprehensions spread like dandelion seeds on the wind and have become intricately tangled in our everyday lives. Rampant repetition converts these empty myths into eternal truths. Refuting them with observations and reason risks mockery and scorn but it is reasonable to try.
The West Coast Environmental Network (WCEN) opposes coal mining operations on the grounds, among other things, that burning coal will destroy the earth. The following statements about coal and climate change are published on their web site. Let's see if they're right.
Burning and mining coal is the most efficient and fastest way to bring about disastrous climate change.