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Existing power plants will spew 300 billion more tons carbon dioxide during use
2014-08-26 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Existing power plants around the world will pump out more than 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide over their expected lifetimes, significantly adding to atmospheric levels of the climate-warming gas, according to UC Irvine and Princeton University scientists. Their findings, which appear Aug. 26 in the journal Environmental Research Letters, are the first to quantify how quickly these "committed" emissions are growing -- by about 4 percent per year -- as more fossil fuel-burning power plants are...
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