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General News    H3'ed 10/2/16

Recalculating the Climate Math: Answer is not encouraging

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Daniel Geery
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Those numbers spell out, in simple arithmetic, how much of the fossil fuel in the world's existing coal mines and oil wells we can burn if we want to prevent global warming from cooking the planet. In other words, if our goal is to keep the Earth's temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius-the upper limit identified by the nations of the world-how much more new digging and drilling can we do?

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