1. Coal supplies 23% of the world’s
energy
Mining carries along tropical
diseases such as malaria and
dengue fever
Methane produced from coal, is
23 more times likely to
contribute to global warming
than carbon dioxide
In 2007- 67 cases of damage to
ground or surface water
occurred from coal combustion.
When coal is burnt it contains
10 times the normal levels of
Uranium and Thorium.
Jon
Tessman

2. A Fan is not going to blow this away!
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• Shuster, Michele, Janet Vigna, Gunjan Sinha, and
Matthew Tontonoz. Biology For a Changing World. New
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