Joe Elliott

The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (AOC) quietly displayed twenty-one influential Le Mans racers built over the last nine decades on the sidelines of the Geneva Motor Show. Located on the bottom floor of the Palexpo Convention Center, the display aims to showcase how the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the cars that compete in it have evolved over the years.

In the early days of the race, simply crossing the finish line was an astounding feat that made drivers proud regardless of how long it took them. In recent years, however, the event has become a day-long all-out sprint that takes a heavy toll on both cars and drivers. Companies like Toyota and Audi have turned to hybrid powertrains in a bid to reduce the number of pit stops and save precious seconds.

One of the most historically important cars displayed in Geneva by the AOC is a 1923 Chenard-Walcker Sport, the car that won the first-ever 24 Hours of Le Mans held on May 26th and 27th, 1923. Powered by a 3.0-liter straight-four, the Chenard-Walcker drove for 2,209 kilometers (1,372 miles) at an average speed of 92 km/h (57 mph). The tool box mounted on the running board perfectly illustrates that drivers had to stop and fix their own car until full pit crews gradually started to appear.

The other cars on display are 1929 Bentley Speed Six, a 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C, a 1937 Chenard-Walcker Tank, a 1949 Ferrari 166MM, a 1954 Jaguar D, a 1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa, a 1966 Ford GT40, a 1970 Porsche 917 K, a 1974 Matra 670B, a 1978 Renault-Alpine A442, a 1980 Rondeau M379, a 1982 Porsche 956, a 1989 Sauber-Mercedes C9, a 1991 Jaguar XJR9, a 1991 Mazda 787 B, a 1992 Peugeot 905, a 1998 Porsche GT1, a 2000 Audi R8, a 2009 Peugeot 908 and a 2013 Audi R18 e-tron, the winner of last year’s race.

Note: The R8 and the 908 are not pictured.

If what the Russians want most in Crimea is a peninsula jutting into warm water and offering port facilities for a fleet — you think they might take Florida?

There already seem to be a lot of Russians in the Miami area, migrating down from Greater Toronto and Montreal  every winter, so it's not like Russians lack a foothold, and maybe some very deep connections in terms of, as the Corleone extended family put it, "business." 

Just a thought — although the Ruskies really ought to check out the history of Texas and have Crimea go independent before absorbing the territory.

Uh, and, Vladimir, when you're checking out Texas history, maybe also check out Texas: that Gulf Coast and all. If you're willing to make Austin an open city and guarantee free-flow of petroleum stuff, there are folks where I live who'd love to sign Texas independence petitions and would be willing to deal.

Think about it. 

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The Aperia Halo uses an interior pendulum to create energy to ensure tractor-trailer tires are properly inflated.

Apple may have finally rectify the disconnect between our cars and our smartphones--if only for iPhone users--with the introduction of CarPlay. It turns that archaic screen on your dash into a car-friendly iOS device, with Maps, Messaging, Music and more.

            A friend sent me a copy of an op-ed piece from The New York Times of 27 February 2014, wherein Greg Hampikian, identified as "a professor of biology and criminal justice at Boise State University," raises the question, increasingly pressing given recent increases in the right to keep and bear and openly carry arms — sometimes including on college campuses — "When May I Shoot a Student?"

            This is a fine article, but I find myself troubled by one phrase even Professor Hampikian seems to find problematic. 

"Knee-jerk reactions from law enforcement officials and university presidents are best set aside. Ignore, for example, the lame argument that some drunken frat boys will fire their weapons in violation of best practices. This view is based on stereotypical depictions of drunken frat boys, a group whose dignity no one seems willing to defend."

             As a fraternity alumnus myself, I will not defend any obnoxious drunks but must deplore the use of the stereotyping and juvenalizing phrase "drunken frat boys." If one insists on denigration — and we writers of wise-ass punditry often so insist — I tentatively recommend the more exact, neutral, and gender-and-living-unit-inclusive formulation "obstreperous frat rats, inebriated sorority chicks, and indies."

            Partly here, I follow the example of an apartment mate I had in graduate school who wouldn’t go to a restaurant on Sunday evenings because the dormitories and independent houses on campus usually didn't serve Sunday dinner, so, "The dormies are out! The dormies are out!" He despised undergraduates of all varieties, but found those from the dorms most annoying. He was not a fraternity alum himself but a student of sociology and undoubtedly developed his views only after diligent research.

            As one might know if one has studied Elizabethan usage — and sure as hell knows if one is a Black man — "boy" is a traditional insult, but nowadays not as much as it should be.

            Given the generally suckiness of adult life for many Americans (if not 99%, still a fair number), and given how pleasant "campus life" can be if one takes care to avoid the "College is for Grownups" shit of class work, it is understandable than many young Americans use college as what one of my students called, "The Four-Year Vacation" and another called, more relevantly here, "College: Half-Way House to Adulthood."

            So arrested development among young Americans is understandable, but it is not to be encouraged. And following from that principle, professors, parents, politicians, and pundits — and administrators and other nonalliterating classifications — should risk the occasional appearance of delusion and talk of "college men" and "college women," "sorority women" and "fraternity men" and, "students in the residence halls and independent houses."

            Pressing further, I would note that abuse of alcohol and other drugs is hardly limited to young people; it is just that youths tend to be loudest and most irritating about it, and certainly more apt than their elders to piss on your lawn or puke on your shoes. These problems, however, are often more a product of inexperience and some cultural/legal perversities than of youth, and America's young would do better if older members of their extended families would bloody well teach the little punks how to hold their liquor like civilized folk.

            CAUTION, however: serving liquor to even one's kids is illegal in many jurisdictions. The American rule is "Old enough to drive, be drafted, vote, and bring guns to class, but much too young to learn, even at home, how to use, not abuse, booze."

 

            But I digress; the topic here is language usage, about which I have some authority (we spoke English at my home). The topic here is usage and trying to talk inclusively rather than stereotyping. So avoid both overgeneralization and targeting an often-privileged minority group, but still a minority group. The problem isn't limited to "drunken frat boys," and my final advice is that one take care to slur more carefully, generally, and decorously: "obnoxious drunken assholes."

This 1982 AC 3000 ME is said too be one of 101 built around the time that the AC enterprise was sold to Scotland. We’ve only featured one other example before, and think that it is an interesting shape. There is definitely some X1/9 and some Stratos in there. Find it here at H&H Auctions, who is holding a very interesting sale on Wednesday. Special thanks to BaT reader NGK for this submission!

A Finnish tire manufacturer has create a concept tire that can engage metal pins on icy roads, then retract them when back on asphalt.

The results of a crowd-sourcing appeal prove that Discovery Channel engaged in fakery.

By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 21st February 2014

The suspicion that the Discovery Channel had abandoned its professed editorial standards was a powerful one. Its documentary claiming that the giant shark Carchardon megalodon still exists contained images which gave a strong impression of being faked; reports of incidents which don’t appear to have happened; and interviews with “marine biologists” no one has been able to trace.

But allegations of fakery are very hard to prove. As you know, absence of evidence doesn’t mean evidence of absence. Just because no one has been able to trace the news reports the Megalodon show claims to have found, or any record of the deaths of four people in an attack by a giant shark off South Africa last year, or any trace of the suspiciously handsome experts it used to confirm its thesis doesn’t prove definitively that all of them are inventions, even though it’s hard to see how they could not be.

And pointing out that a photograph the “documentary” used to make its case looks like a really bad CGI cobblers in which just about everything is wrong isn’t quite the same as being able to state categorically that it’s a fraud.

So to test my suspicions I offered a small reward – a signed copy of my latest book – to the first person who could find an original copy of another image Discovery used, which purported to show a Megalodon swimming past two U-boats off Capetown.

It was the perfect cable channel conjunction: Nazi U-boats and a rediscovered extinct sea monster all in one frame. How clever they were to have found such an image, which, though utterly astounding, had remained unnoticed for 70 years!

Apart from the minor quibbles that no U-boats of this class are known to have been close to South Africa on the given date, that everything about the shark fins looks wrong, that at 64 feet between the dorsal fin and the tail this monster was twice the size even of the actual creature (which every expert on earth, except the two mysterious “marine biologists” in the film, believe became extinct about 2 million years ago), and that the great beast mysteriously creates neither bow wave nor wake, there were other reasons to be a little suspicious.

As one of my correspondents points out, “The swastika up the top is ludicrous so I won’t bother mentioning that. The photograph is toned sepia. This is ridiculous as it required a separate pigment in a process that was used to make the photograph look warmer and ‘nicer’ for family photographs. It required more effort that developing in black and white. Photographs coming as sepia as standard is simply another myth created for entertainment.”

So there’s powerful evidence that this image had been doctored, but again it doesn’t quite amount to proof. Until now.

Before I wrote the article I conducted an image search, and found nothing. Now I know why. It wasn’t a still picture. A sharp-eyed reader found the frame in some footage of U-boats on tarrif.net. The footage was shot in the Atlantic. Take a look at the film, 12 seconds in.

It’s the same shot. But guess what? No shark. And no swastika. And not off Capetown. Or anywhere near.

I wrote to the company handling media inquiries, putting it to them that the production company which made the film, Pilgrim Studios, doctored the image and misled the audience. I have not heard back from them.

Here’s Discovery’s mission statement:

How many people now believe it’s living up to these ideals?

www.monbiot.com

 

 

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Non-flammable electrolyte found hiding in plain sight

As Boeing and Tesla both know, if you mistreat a lithium-ion battery, it can start a fire – which puts a premium on the search for non-flammable components. Now, US researchers say they've found a candidate electrolyte in an unexpected place.…

BICEP2's flex, inflation and ... quantum physics

Along with the general excitement surrounding the announcement that astrophysicists may have found a way to confirm the “cosmic inflation” model of the early universe came a keen sub-debate: does this result imply we live in just one universe of a so-called “multiverse”.…

Landmark discovery backs Einstein and shows inflation is as old as time

Pics  A team of astrophysicists has announced a sighting of gravitational waves – formed in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the universe as we know it blinked into existence.…

Passengers stuck in the bowels of Royal Caribbean's latest behemoth can now pretend they're living the high life with a "virtual balcony" -- marketing-speak for an 80-inch HD display that pipes in real-time video to create a pseudo window, complete ...

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Most of what you print gets tossed so why not use the paper again?

Most of what gets spat out of office printers is read once and consigned to the recycling, so why do prints have to be permanent? One answer to that question is that they don't – and a water-jet printing technology published in Nature Communications suggests a way to make printing vastly cheaper.…

This 1975 Lancia Stratos HF (chassis 001907) is said to be a matching numbers example that’s all original apart from Group 4 wheels and rear fender flares. It looks quite nice inside and out, and mileage is said to be only 26,000. We’ve watched the prices on these cars rise exponentially over the past few years, and can’t imagine them sticking around in this price bracket for long. Find this one here at F.A. Automobile in Paris, France for 330k euros (~$446,358 today).

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I think this is an accurate use of quotation marks, but it's still funny. Thanks Susan.

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Just like an outbreak of the Ebola virus, stalkbooking will eventually run its course

The internet has seized with glee on a Princeton research paper that suggests Facebook will be a virtually abandoned, tumbleweed-riddled corner of the web by 2017, when the social network's "outbreak" will have run its course.…

A shocking new bill threatens to make this country feel like a giant shopping mall.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th January 2014

Until the late 19th Century, much of our city space was owned by private landlords. Squares were gated, streets were controlled by turnpikes(1). The great unwashed, many of whom had been expelled from the countryside by acts of enclosure, were also excluded from desirable parts of town.

Social reformers and democratic movements tore down the barriers, and public space became a right, not a privilege. But social exclusion follows inequality as night follows day, and now, with little public debate, our city centres are again being privatised or semi-privatised. They are being turned by the companies that run them into soulless, cheerless, pasteurised piazzas, in which plastic policemen harry anyone loitering without intent to shop.

Streetlife in these places is reduced to a trance-world of consumerism, of conformity and atomisation, in which nothing unpredictable or disconcerting happens, a world made safe for selling mountains of pointless junk to tranquilised shoppers. Spontaneous gatherings of any other kind – unruly, exuberant, open-ended, oppositional – are banned. Young, homeless and eccentric people are, in the eyes of those upholding this dead-eyed, sanitised version of public order, guilty until proven innocent.

Now this dreary ethos is creeping into places which are not, ostensibly, owned or controlled by corporations. It is enforced less by gates and barriers (though plenty of these are reappearing) than by legal instruments, used to exclude or control the ever widening class of undesirables.

The existing rules are bad enough. Introduced by the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, anti-social behavour orders (Asbos) have criminalised an apparently endless range of activities, subjecting thousands – mostly young and poor – to bespoke laws(2). They have been used to enforce a kind of caste prohibition: personalised rules which prevent the untouchables from intruding into the lives of others.

You get an Asbo for behaving in a manner deemed by a magistrate as likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to other people. Under this injunction, the proscribed behaviour becomes a criminal offence. Asbos have been granted which forbid the carrying of condoms by a prostitute, homeless alcoholics from possessing alcohol in a public place, a soup kitchen from giving food to the poor, a young man from walking down any road other than his own, children from playing football in the street(3). They were used to ban peaceful protests against the Olympic clearances(4).

Inevitably, over half the people subject to Asbos break them. As Liberty says, these injunctions “set the young, vulnerable or mentally ill up to fail”, and fast-track them into the criminal justice system(5). They allow the courts to imprison people for offences which are not otherwise imprisonable. One homeless young man was sentenced to five years in jail for begging: an offence for which no custodial sentence exists(6). Asbos permit the police and courts to create their own laws and their own penal codes.

All this is about to get much worse. Tomorrow the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill reaches its report stage (close to the end of the process) in the House of Lords(7). It is remarkable how little fuss has been made about it, and how little we know of what is about to hit us.

The bill would permit injunctions against anyone of 10 or above who “has engaged or threatens to engage in conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person.”(8) It would replace Asbos with Ipnas (Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance), which would not only forbid certain forms of behaviour, but also force the recipient to discharge positive obligations. In other words, they can impose a kind of community service on people who have committed no crime, which could, the law proposes, remain in force for the rest of their lives.

The bill also introduces Public Space Protection Orders, which can prevent either everybody or particular kinds of people from doing certain things in certain places. It creates new dispersal powers, which can be used by the police to exclude people from an area (there is no size limit), whether or not they have done anything wrong.

While, as a result of a successful legal challenge, Asbos can be granted only if a court is satisfied “beyond reasonable doubt” that anti-social behaviour took place, Ipnas can be granted “on the balance of probabilities”. Breaching them will not be classed as a criminal offence, but can still carry a custodial sentence: without committing a crime, you can be imprisoned for up to two years. Children, who cannot currently be detained for contempt of court, will be subject to an inspiring new range of punishments for breaking an Ipna, including three months in a young offenders’ centre(9).

Lord Macdonald, formerly the director of public prosecutions, points out that “it is difficult to imagine a broader concept than causing ‘nuisance’ or ‘annoyance’. The phrase is apt to catch a vast range of everyday behaviours to an extent that may have serious implications for the rule of law”(10). Protesters, buskers, preachers: all, he argues, could end up with Ipnas.

The Home Office minister, Norman Baker, once a defender of civil liberties, now the architect of the most oppressive bill pushed through any recent parliament, claims that the amendments he offered in December will “reassure people that basic liberties will not be affected”(11). But Liberty describes them as “a little bit of window-dressing: nothing substantial has changed.”(12)

The new injunctions and the new dispersal orders create a system in which the authorities can prevent anyone from doing more or less anything. But they won’t be deployed against anyone. Advertisers, who cause plenty of nuisance and annoyance, have nothing to fear; nor do opera lovers hogging the pavements of Covent Garden. Annoyance and nuisance are what young people cause; they are inflicted by oddballs, the underclass, those who dispute the claims of power.

These laws will be used to stamp out plurality and difference, to douse the exuberance of youth, to pursue children for the crime of being young and together in a public place, to help turn this nation into a money-making monoculture, controlled, homogenised, lifeless, strifeless and bland. For a government which represents the old and the rich, that must sound like paradise.

www.monbiot.com

References:

1. Anna Minton, ?2006. The privatisation of public space. The Royal Institution
of Chartered Surveyors.  http://www.annaminton.com/Privatepublicspace.pdf

2. http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/media/articles/pdfs/asbos-and-human-rights-2004.pdf

3. http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf

4. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/apr/17/protester-receives-olympic-asbo

5. http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf

6. http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf

7. http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/antisocialbehaviourcrimeandpolicingbill.html

8. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2013-2014/0066/lbill_2013-20140066_en_1.htm

9. See also: http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/2013/11/11/the-birth-of-a-police-state-uk-police-to-be-granted-sweeping-new-powers-2/

10. http://reformclause1.org.uk/files/opinion.pdf

11. http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/dec/18/right-to-protest-anti-social-behaviour-crime-policing-bill

12. By phone, 6th January 2013.

Why do we transfer the real health risks inflicted by coal onto nuclear energy?

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th December 2013

Most of the afflictions wrongly attributed to nuclear power can rightly be attributed to coal. I was struck by this thought when I saw the graphics published by Greenpeace on Friday, showing the premature deaths caused by coal plants in China(1). The research it commissioned suggests that a quarter of a million deaths a year could be avoided there if coal power there were shut down(2). Yes, a quarter of a million.

Were Greenpeace to plot the impacts of nuclear power on the same scale, the vast red splodges depicting the air pollution catastrophe suffered by several Chinese cities would be replaced by dots invisible to the naked eye.

This is not to suggest that there are no impacts, but they are tiny by comparison. The World Health Organisation’s analysis of the Fukushima disaster concludes that “for the general population inside and outside of Japan … no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated.”(3) Only the most contaminated parts of Fukushima prefecture are exposed to any significant threat: a slight increase in the chances of contracting cancer. Even the majority of the emergency workers have no higher cancer risk than that of the general population(4). And this, remember, was caused by an unprecedented disaster. The deaths in China are caused by business as usual.

The tiny risk imposed by nuclear power has both obscured and invoked the far greater risk imposed by coal. Scare stories about nuclear power are a gift to the coal industry. Where they are taken seriously by politicians – as they have been in Japan – and cause a switch from nuclear to coal, they kill people(5).

Since the tsunami in 2011, the internet has been awash with ever more lurid claims about Fukushima. Millions have read reports which claim that children on the western seaboard of the US are dying as a result of radiation the damaged plant released(6,7). It doesn’t seem to matter how often and effectively they are debunked: they keep on coming(8). But children in the US really are dying as a result of pollution from coal plants, and we hear almost nothing about it.

Plenty of reports also propose that the water on the Pacific coast of North America is now dangerous to swimmers, and the fish there too radioactive to eat(9,10,11). Again, it’s not true. Except in the immediate vicinity of the plant, any extra radiation to which fish in the Pacific are exposed is minute by comparison to the concentration in their tissues of polonium-210, which occurs naturally in seawater(12,13). There are, however, genuine dangers associated with another toxic contaminant found in fish: mercury(14). What is the primary source of mercury pollution? Ah yes, coal burning(15).

In October, for the first time, the World Health Organisation officially listed both gaseous outdoor pollution and airborne particulates as carcinogenic to humans(16). Exposure levels, it notes, are rising sharply in some parts of the world. In 2010 an estimated 223,000 deaths from lung cancer were caused by air pollution(17).

But these cancers, though wildly outstripping those correctly attributed to manmade radiation, are just a small part of the pollution problem. Far greater numbers are afflicted by other diseases, including asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, hypertension, strokes, low birth weight, pre-term delivery, pre-eclampsia and (through heavy metal exposure in the womb) impaired brain function.

Three hundred microgrammes of fine particulates per cubic metre of air is classed as severe pollution, the point at which children and elderly people should not leave their homes. As Greenpeace points out, in Shanghai a fortnight ago and in Harbin in October, concentrations exceeded 500 microgrammes(18). By far the greatest source of these particles is coal burning. In total, air pollution in northern China, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has cut average life expectancy by five and a half years(19).

We have exported much of our pollution – and its associated deaths – but the residue in our own countries is still severe. A study by the Clean Air Task Force suggests that coal power in the US causes 13,200 premature deaths a year(20). In Europe, according to the Health and Environment Alliance, the figure is 18,200(21). A study it cites suggests that around 200,000 children born in Europe each year have been exposed to “critical levels” of methylmercury in the womb(22). It estimates the health costs inflicted by coal burning at between €15 and 42 billion a year. Do you still reckon coal is cheap?

You’re picturing filthy plants in Poland and Romania, aren’t you? But among the most polluting power stations in Europe, Longannet in Scotland is ranked 11th. Drax, in England, is ranked 7th(23). Last week the House of Lords failed to pass an amendment which would have forced a gradual shutdown of our coal-burning power plants: they remain exempted from the emissions standards other power stations have to meet(24,25).

While nuclear power is faltering, coal is booming. Almost 1,200 new plants are being developed worldwide(26): many will use coal exported from the United States and Australia. The exports are now a massive source of income for these supposedly greening economies(27). By 2030, China is expected to import almost five times as much coal as it does today(28). The International Energy Agency estimates that the global use of coal will increase by 65% by 2035(29). Even before you consider climate change, this is a disaster.

You don’t have to be an enthusiast for atomic energy to see that it scarcely features as a health risk beside its rival. I wonder whether the nuclear panic might be a way of not seeing. Displacement is something we all do: fixing on something small to avoid engaging with something big. Coal, on which industrialism was built, which over the past 200 years has come to seem central to our identity, is an industry much bigger and nastier and more embedded than the one we have chosen to fear. I don’t believe our choice is accidental.

www.monbiot.com

References:

1. http://bit.ly/JoTuPa

2. http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/data/interactive-health-impact-chinas-coal-plants-mapped

3. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/fukushima_report_20130228/en/

4. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/fukushima_report_20130228/en/

5. Japan has so far commissioned 3.6GW of coal plants to cover its nuclear shutdown. http://www.miningweekly.com/article/global-coal-demand-growth-calls-for-intensified-search-for-clean-coal-solution-2013-12-13

6. http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/06/10/is-the-increase-in-baby-deaths-in-the-us-a-result-of-fukushima-fallout/

7. http://www.infowars.com/report-third-of-us-west-coast-children-hit-with-thyroid-problems-following-fukushima/

8. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/06/21/are-babies-dying-in-the-pacific-northwest-due-to-fukushima-a-look-at-the-numbers/

9. http://thetruthwins.com/archives/radioactive-water-from-fukushima-is-systematically-poisoning-the-entire-pacific-ocean

10. http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-the-ticking-nuclear-bomb-over-800-tons-of-radioactive-material-pouring-into-pacific-ocean/5356276

11. http://www.collapsingintoconsciousness.com/at-the-very-least-your-days-of-eating-pacific-ocean-fish-are-over/

12. http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?cid=94989&pid=83397&tid=3622

13. http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-12-03-fearful-fukushima-fiction-fatigue/#.Uq8nticd76I

14. Eg D Mergler et al, 2007. Methylmercury exposure and health effects in humans: a worldwide concern. Ambio; 36(1), pp3-11.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17408186

15. http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/sources.asp

16. http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/pr221_E.pdf

17. http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/pr221_E.pdf

18. http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/data/map-shanghais-charts-air-pollution

19. Yuyu Chen et al, 2013. Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air
pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River policy. PNAS, vol. 110 no. 32, pp12936-12941. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1300018110 http://www.pnas.org/content/110/32/12936.full.pdf+html

20. http://www.catf.us/resources/publications/files/The_Toll_from_Coal.pdf

21. http://www.env-health.org/IMG/pdf/heal_report_the_unpaid_health_bill_-_how_coal_power_plants_make_us_sick_finalpdf.pdf

22. M. Bellanger et al, 2013. Economic benefits of methylmercury exposure control in Europe: Monetary value of neurotoxicity prevention. Environmental Health; 12:3. http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069X-12-3.pdf

23. http://www.env-health.org/IMG/pdf/heal_report_the_unpaid_health_bill_-_how_coal_power_plants_make_us_sick_finalpdf.pdf

24. http://www.energylivenews.com/2013/12/12/lords-vote-against-tougher-coal-plants-rule-in-uk/

25. http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/11/could-old-coal-threaten-the-uk%E2%80%99s-carbon-budgets/

26. http://www.wri.org/blog/new-global-assessment-reveals-nearly-1200-proposed-coal-fired-power-plants

27. http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/pdf/coal-a-key-player-in-expanded-us-energy-exports.pdf

28. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20002801

29. http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2011/executive_summary.pdf

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