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Ayala: With power or without, San Antonian s inventory of his African American book collection goes on
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Dr. Joe Pierce sits in the library of his Sonterra home, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Pierce and his wife, art patron, Aaronetta, have been organizing his vast book collection.Jerry Lara, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Dr. Joe Pierce sits in the library of his Sonterra home, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Pierce and his wife, art patron, Aaronetta, have been organizing his vast book collection.Jerry Lara, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Dr. Joe Pierce holds a copy of his favorite book, “The Revolt of the Black Athlete,” by Harry Edwards, at his Sonterra home, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Pierce and his wife, art patron, Aaronetta, have been organizing his vast book collection. Pierce was able to get the book autographed Edwards and the 1968 Olympian featured on the cover, Tommie Smith
Commentary: Benjamin Zycher - Shallowness behind pipeline opposition
Benjamin Zycher
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But one reality is eternal: The arguments against Keystone XL are as weak today as ever.
The all-purpose climate argument is the central focus: Keystone XL supposedly would worsen anthropogenic (manmade) climate change.
The pipeline would transport 830,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude oil, the total greenhouse gas emissions from which would be about 150 million metric tons per year, or about 0.3 percent of the world total. If we apply the EPA climate model using the least favorable set of assumptions, those emissions would have a global temperature effect of about four ten-thousandths of a degree Celsius by 2100. The impacts upon sea levels and other climate phenomena would be similarly undetectable; so much for the ubiquitous empty rhetoric about the “climate disaster” supposedly to be engendered by Keystone XL. Why do the opponents attempt to obscure this?