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Our New Study: Global Warming From Coal Worse than Oil Sands

Andrew Weaver | Posted 04.22.2012 | Canada
Andrew Weaver

In the midst of the controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline last fall, two of us -- Neil Swart, a PhD student in my lab, and I -- undertook to measure the likely impact of oil sands development upon world climate. Our overarching conclusion? As a society, we will live or die by our future consumption of coal.