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Coal and our energy future!

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I came across this story that parallels what I have been saying about oil
There may be plenty of it, but not all of it is economically recoverable.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...estimates-may-have-skewed-climate-projections
The 1000 GtC coal question: Are cases of vastly expanded future coal combustion still plausible?
To get to the dark future of RCP 8.5, Ritchie found, you'd have to burn more coal than anyone should expect to be dug up. This pathway for future warming, often considered a business-as-usual scenario, wasn't likely.
 
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