India will continue to use coal to meet its energy demands, says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “You cannot, in a democracy, ignore some of these realities and as it happens with the resources of coal that India has we really don’t have any choice but to use coal in the immediate short term,” he said. The Hindu, 22 July 2009
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janama says
July 23, 2009 at 7:12 amplease excuse Australia while you are at it.
““You cannot, in a democracy, ignore some of these realities and as it happens with the resources of coal that Australia has we really don’t have any choice but to use coal in the immediate short term,”
Rick Beikoff says
July 23, 2009 at 12:04 pmSpot on, janama. One out, all out!
Unless, of course, we want to export all our manufaturing sector and jobs to the likes of India and China. And, probably most of our agriculture and mining too. What would our economy look like then? Probably just like India and China now. What a cunning plan!
hunter says
July 23, 2009 at 9:43 pmIt is very interesting that the lead person of the organization selling climate fear as a worldwide catastrophe is excusing a major national source of the catastrophe he sells. It is even more interesting when it becomes clear that this person is a citizen of the country he insists should be excused.
Those in a position to know the true likelihood of AGW being credible do not act as if it were a real problem at all.
This is simply more evidence that AGW is not about science, or even CO2. In reality AGW is about political power.