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The climate dangers of coal

The Washington Post: "CO2from oil is going to get into the atmosphere," says James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute, because "you're not going to be able to tell Saudi Arabia and Russia, the countries that have oil, not to sell their oil." Hansen's solution: look to the other
major source of greenhouse gases, coal-fired power plants and "phase out coal as promptly as is practical."

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