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Recession, not gas, drove drop in US emissions: Study
2015-07-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Economic recession was the main cause for a drop in United States carbon dioxide emissions between 2007 and 2013 -- not a shift from coal- to gas-fuelled energy as widely claimed, researchers said Tuesday. US emissions of carbon dioxide, the main contributor to manmade global warming, fell by around 11 percent in the six-year period, according to a paper in the journal Nature Communications. "Coinciding with the post-2007 decline in emissions, innovations in hydraulic fracturing technology...
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