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LETTERS 



human race must refocus and rethink 

 its priorities. 

 Jon Dcak 

 New York, NY 



Jeff Goodell's article was based on min- 

 imal facts and pseudoscience, and I was 

 shocked that you would publish it. I am 

 a geologist and know of the lack of cor- 

 relation between climate and carbon 

 dioxide. I am also involved with min- 

 ing, so am aware of the fanciful de- 

 scriptions Goodell had of mountaintop 

 mining. The errors in his article are eas- 

 ily spotted: 1,000-foot-thick surface 

 mines, 400,000 acres of forest lost, and 

 700 miles of streams destroyed. 

 Ken Fishel 

 Lexington, Kentucky 



Jeff Goodell replies: The 400,000 

 acres of forest lost and 700 miles of 

 streams destroyed, data that Ken Fishel 

 dismisses as erroneous, are well-docu- 

 mented in an exhaustive report on 

 mountaintop mining issued by the U.S. 

 Environmental Protection Agency in 

 October 2005. As for the "1,000-foot- 

 thick surface mines," the photo caption 

 simply describes how workers "blast 

 away the uppermost 800 to 1,000 feet 

 of rock to expose layers of coal within." 

 The truth of this is apparent to anyone 

 who glances at a photograph of a big 

 surface mine, much less has been per- 

 sonally involved in the mining industry. 



Finally, as for the "lack of correla- 

 tion between climate and carbon 

 dioxide," I presume Mr. Fishel grasps 

 the basic physics of the greenhouse ef- 

 fect, and that what he really is talking 

 about is the complexity of the correla- 

 tion between climate change and car- 

 bon dioxide — a subject that was, alas, 

 beyond the scope of my brief article 

 about coal. 



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