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Is 450 ppm politically possible? Part 2.5
What is the impact of peak oil and peak coal? |
Joseph Romm |
26 Apr 2008 |
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| The goal of this post is to explore how peak oil and, yes, peak coal might affect the world's effort to stabilize CO2 concentrations. Here I present calculations I haven't seen anywhere else, and since different sources provide different numbers, please view these as a crude estimates. I welcome corrections. At recent growth rates for oil consumption, we are all but certain to peak in oil production within two decades -- and if we follow the recent trend-line for coa ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, fossil fuels, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil (all these topics) |
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