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Committed Carbon Emissions Are Rising Fast
2014-08-30 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: Challenging news for those climate campaigners who believe that renewable sources of energy are on the increase: they may be, but so are carbon dioxide emissions. Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine and Robert Socolow of Princeton University in the US report in the journal Environmental Research Letters that existing power plants will emit 300 billion tons of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during their lifetimes. In this century alone, emissions have grown by 4%...
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