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Coal bust may be behind stall in carbon emissions
2015-03-17 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: THE link between economic growth and rising greenhouse gas emissions may have finally been broken. Last week, we learned that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels failed to rise in 2014 the first time that has happened without an economic downturn. Now we know why. Although coal plant construction tripled globally after 2005, that boom is turning to bust. An analysis by CoalSwarm, a think tank supported by the Sierra Club and other US NGOs, has found that since 2010 hundreds of coal...
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