What%26#039;s the environmental impact of burning all the coal in the world? That%26#039;s like removing the oxygen from 1.33 E 13 tons of air.

How much does that leave for humans to breathe in the future?

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%26quot;The average mass of the atmosphere is about 5,000 trillion metric tons %26quot;

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%26quot;there are around one thousand billion tonnes of total coal reserves economically accessible using current mining technology%26quot;

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It is not a matter of oxygen. If carbon dioxide gases are above safety standards, then the world will be quite a bit warmer. Then the ocean water will lose oxygen because warmer water holds less oxygen. Then algae will die. Without algae, the ocean will be filled with bacteria. The warming ocean will evaporate the water with bacteria and will kill all land animals causing mass extinction.

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It would be nice if we could radiate the extra heat into the coldness of space from the South Pole. That way the ice cap would be stabilized.

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• We are all going to die! This creates CO2 which will tip the world environmental balance. Refer to Al Gore%26#039;s movie %26quot;The Inconvenient Truth%26quot;
• Democrats will tax us to death long before we need to worry about burning all the coal.