Nicola Bastian July 29th, 14 

Millville, WV 25432 

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Re: EPA CO2 Emrnission Rule, 

as mandated by the congressional „Clean Air Act". 

Staff inembers of the EPA and scientists involved in creating a plan for CO2 reduction, 

T am grateful to you for all the hours spent compiling this plan and for organizing this 

public discourse . 

A shout- out to concerned citizens , some from afar, who gather here to express their 

ideas on the EPA plan 

Greetings as well to the outspoken opponents of this plan. 

My name is Nicola Bastian, I am from Jefferson County , West Virginia.. 

Our strip-mining , as noisy and polluted as it might get witli'Diesel locomotives running 

all night close to our homes , is at least, not coal but gravel mining. 

Especially for the skeptics present today I intend to offer food for thought 

Assuming the validity of the argument , that CO2 is a minor player in Global Warming, 

there remains the largely uncontested fact that the acidity of our ocean water due to man 

made CO2, has increased dramatically since the beginning of the industrial age. 

That alone would be reason enough to cut down our CO2 output. 

Uncorrtested , as well, is the fact that we upload 38 Billion tons of CO2 yearly into our 

very thin atmosphere. , yes, 38 Billion tons in the year 2011a1one , or, , in other words 

more then 2.4 million tons per day. 

That sounds like a lot of molecules- wouldn't you say? 

Contributors to this tonnage were: 

6 % other 

9% residential and commercial 

32 % transportation 

38% from generating electricity, 

mostly by burning coal. 

The current atrnospheric CO21eve1 is said to be higher then in the last 800 thousand 

years. 

If this ball models the size of our planet, the thickness of the atmosphere would be less 

then a thin plastic wrap around this ball, the fragile skin of our planet earth. 
That is food for thought, regardless of the seemingly small CO2 output relative to the 

weight of our atmosphere; regardless as well, of the argument being proposed by some 

scientists , that increased water vapor, supposedly not man made, is said to be the biggei - 

playerin Global Warming. 

Be that as it may, greater minds then I will study those issues in more detail- Miss Truth 

be their muse. 

Returning to the subject of increased acidity in our oeean water. 

CO2 aeidifies water when it reacts with it, producing mostly carbonic acid . 

From pre--industrial times to 1990: an increase of 19 % 

To present level: an increase of 29 % 

by 2050, estimated continuing our CO2 output 70% 

By 2100 an increase of 125 %. 

The impact of increased acidity on marine life is measurable , the loss of work for 

millions of fishermen predictable. 

I wish I could convey to you the joy I felt flying over Germany this year and seeing so 

many roofs and sometimes huge barns covered with solar panels, 

They have less sun then we do in West Virginia- last winter being a history making 

exeption; Bikini weather in the Alps in the winter months. Global Warming in action? 

This concludes my offer for food for thought for today 

With many thanks 

For listening 

For inspiring me to comb the internet for as many facts as my old head can accomodate 

In preperation, I increased my own understanding of the workings of inen in his 

environment. I pray I contributed to yours. 

Let us use our creative talents and our practical skills to come up with good solutions to 

West Virginia' s coal dilemma and fear of Big Government intervention 

Thank you