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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Coal, not oilsands, the real threat to climate, study finds (in the Toronto Star)

"...the paper concludes that burning all the globe’s vast coal deposits would create a 15C-degree increase in temperature. Burning all the abundant natural gas would warm the planet by more than three degrees. ...

"“This idea that we’re going to somehow run out of coal and natural gas and fossil fuels is really misplaced. We’ll run out of human ability to live on the planet long before we run out of them.

"“I have always said that the tarsands are a symptom of a very big problem. The problem is dependence on fossil fuels.”"

Full article: Canada News: Coal, not oilsands, the real threat to climate, study finds.