Junkscience.com reports this is what the print copy looks like today for this article by Eugene Robinson. Note what looks like black unfiltered pollutants spewing skyward:
But when you look at the original photo, you notice something different:
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The caption reads:
Silhouetted against the sky at dusk, excess steam, along with non-scrubbed pollutants, spew from the smokestacks at Westar Energy’s Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant near St. Marys, Kansas. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
Here is what the stacks look like in broad daylight – steam:
Apparently, WaPo hasn’t learned a damn thing since we last called them out for using this very same photo and had readers send complaints to their omubudsman. See:
The Washington Post Eilperin emissions trick
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Just remember – the Washington Post is the official propagandist for the liberal establishment.
Don’t expect journalistic ethics from a group of clowns who aren’t journalists and have no ethics.
I saw a demonstration of that effect in Imperial Valley. Heading east pre-dawn, I saw what looked like a lot of smoke coming from a waste treatment plant. Once I got up to it (you can see for miles in the desert), it disappeared – it was just steam in the early morning silhouetted against a lightening sky.
They could save a bunch on ink (printing large, dark areas runs my ink carts down quickly), too, if they were just ‘trvthful’ …
Despicable.
The Dinosaur Media continues spewing their excrement onto waste paper.
Closely looking at the photo just published one CAN see that it’s steam, or at least very possibly is steam…but…the dark presentation doesn’t make this readily apparent. ….so….Wash Post will likely say the photo is a reasonable image and any interpretations by readers are their own fault…
Meet the…”New Chu….same as the Old Chu” ! ! !
The Senate, by a 97-0 unanimous vote confirmed MIT professor Ernest Moniz as Secretary of Energy who promotes the AGW meme, saying ‘debate is not an option’. Yesterday, the Poser-in-Chief teleprompter message de jour was that….”the internet is the new terrorism”….henceforth, enjoy your ‘debate’ in private.
No surprise that el WaPo is trimming the truth.
Not much honesty comes from DC anymore. Just cover ups, obfuscations and diversions.
Makes this vet rather depressed this Memorial Day.
To compound the errors the caption says that the emissions are unscrubbed but according to the EPA Clean Air Markets Division Air Markets Program Database all three units at the Jeffrey Energy Center have “wet limestone” for SO2 control and “Low NOx Burner Technology w/ Closed-coupled/Separated OFA for NOX control. The 2012 station emission rates were for SO2 is 0.02 lbs SO2 per mmBtu and for NOX 0.13 lbs NOX per mmBtu. The implication that these are “dirty” stacks is completely wrong.
The same crap is spewed forth on a daily basis by NPR.
The political scientists fight tooth and nail to preserve NPR and PBS because they realize both provide a direct, unfiltered broadcast propaganda channel to their political base.
Well, to be fair, water *is* a greenhouse gas 🙂
I do not understand an industry can call itself ‘green’ when that industry:
== cuts down vast numbers of trees,
== uses energy and water supplies to turn those trees into pulp then paper,
== uses more energy and chemicals to print their output onto that paper
== uses yet more energy to distribute the printed paper to its readers countrywide
Surely these dinosaurs of the information age should just have an environmentally friendly electronic copy for access.
The energy they are wasting comes from the very power generation plants that they are demonizing.
How hypocritical can you get?
To be honest, these people don’t know that CO2 is odorless (except in very high concentrations) and colorless. Collectively, they are what Lenin called “useful idiots.”
Any climatologist, climate scientist, chemist, etc., should know CO2 is colorless. How many will step forward to correct the record? Who will call out this deliberately misleading photo?
Silhouetted against the sky at dusk, excess steam, along with non-scrubbed pollutants, spew from the smokestacks at Westar Energy’s Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant near St. Marys, Kansas. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
That seems to be an accurate description of what’s shown.
The non-scrubbed pollutants would be 5% of the sulfur and 75% of the mercury and ~80% of the particulate matter. The mercury levels in that coal are about 0.07ppm and about 10,000,000 tonnes of coal are burned there per year so that’s about half a tonne of mercury emissions pa. Total sulfur is about 0.3% so that’s 30,000x.05=1500 tonnes Sulfur emissions pa.
Hey, that’s perfectly normal leftist journalism.
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“more soylent green! says:
May 24, 2013 at 7:43 am”
As is water vapour. Steam however can, in the right propagandist light, look like these pictures.
Other than the date at the top of the paper, what else has the Washington Post ever printed that was truthful? They lost all credibility a long time ago.
Ice, Water, Steam. Can you see the odd one out?
Forget the pic, the op-ed is atrocious.
”For the record, and for the umpteenth time, there is no “great amount of uncertainty” about whether the planet is warming or why.”
For the record and umpteen thousandth time, there is no “great amount of uncertainty” about whether the planet warmed and that we understand a mechanism by which anthropogenic influences may have played a role; the great amount of uncertainty is the significance level of the anthropogenic influence and the resulting consequences if any.
For the record, and for the umpteen hundredth time, there is no “great amount of uncertainty” about whether the planet is warming, it hasn’t been for the last decade and a half.
It’s where the Soviets learned to airbrush leaders in and out of history.
John West says:
May 24, 2013 at 8:05 am
“Forget the pic, the op-ed is atrocious.
”For the record, and for the umpteenth time, there is no “great amount of uncertainty” about whether the planet is warming or why.””
Well but of course there is – HADCRUT just came out with a new version; obviously the IPCC warmists are deeply convinced they haven’t gotten the temperature history right yet. I would call that uncertainty. If they were certain, they could call it a day and stop rewriting the temperature history. Same for GISS or NCDC of course.
Of course the only pollutants which are in the picture are those which are unscrubbed. The scrubbed materials are the ones which have been trapped inside, so by definition the tiny amount which escapes was not scrubbed. But they had to get mentioned, while ly
Ian W says:
May 24, 2013 at 7:43 am
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How hypocritical can you get?
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File that question under “Don’t encourage them.” They are obviously aware of the truth and have are determined to distort it. So then, they just don’t care about anything but getting their way. They can and will do anything.
In the UK, our Clean Air Act prohibits gas, coal & oil boilers from discharging ‘visible particulates’.
Strangely, BioMass boilers are allowed a waiver to allow them to discharge ‘visible particulates’.
The op Ed is as wrong as the picture. But remember this is the Washington Post, in Washington. Where truth does not matter, only politics does.
“Careful not step in WaPoo.”