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China's coal boom is slowing that's huge deal for climate change
2014-04-18 14:36:59| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: How much global warming will we get in the future? That largely depends on how much extra carbon-dioxide humans put in the atmosphere. And that -- in large part -- hinges on how much coal China ends up burning in the years ahead. China has been growing rapidly -- and with 1.3 billion people, it needs a staggering amount of energy. Currently, 65 percent of that energy comes from coal, the most carbon-intensive of all fossil fuels. That's a huge deal: Over the last decade, fully half of the global...
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