That 3.7bn tonnes is the total emissions of CO2-e which could be emitted by just two linked mega coalmines in the Galilee basin in Queensland, Australia, which have both been approved for development.
Never!" The strike committee, of which I was proud to be a member, took their cause to more than 1,000 workplaces, from engineering factories in Glasgow to the coalmines of south Wales.
The Kevin's Corner and Alpha coalmines are two of a series of developments planned for the coal-rich Galilee basin area of central Queensland.
Two proposed coalmines in the region could be responsible for an estimated 3.7bn tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over their lifetimes.
So, the total contribution of these two proposed coalmines in the Galilee basin will be 124 Mt CO2-e a year for 30 years or a whopping (I think this adjective is now allowed) 3,745 Mt Co2-e.
"Premier Palaszczuk's plans will pave the way for construction of up to nine new coalmines, accelerating climate change and ocean acidification – processes that will turn the Great Barrier Reef into a coral graveyard," she said.
"To ensure the reef remains a coral-dominated system, the latest science indicates global average temperature rise would have to be limited to 1.2 degrees celsius" Lock the Gate's Hutton said the government's approach to approving massive coalmines runs contrary to this warning.
Thousands of sites remain from the two centuries that separated the industrial revolution from de-industrialisation at the end of the 20th century: abandoned coalmines and steelmills, empty textiles factories and town gas works.
In 2012 Mr Obama lost big in counties with coalmines (see map).But his unpopularity in the region predates his presidency: in the 2008 primaries Hillary Clinton beat him resoundingly.
THE NARROW VALLEYS snaking through the arid hills around Liulin, a city in Shanxi province in central China, are pockmarked with coalmines.
If Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, is to kick-start spending on infrastructure, weaker investment in China forms a propitious backdrop.Across the Strait of Malacca from the coalmines of Pauh, Karex, a Malaysian firm that is the world's biggest producer of condoms, has been boosted both by the shifting composition of China's imports and by the resulting movement in commodity prices.
