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Coal bigger threat to climate change than oilsands: study
Posted by Times Colonist: Judith Lavoie on February 21st, 2012
Times Colonist: Surprising figures from a study by renowned climate scientist Andrew Weaver show that burning all the oil from the Alberta oilsands would have a relatively minor effect on global warming and that coal is the biggest villain in raising global temperatures.
However, Weaver, a University of Victoria professor, wants to make it crystal clear that the research should not be seen as support for a fossil-fuel-based economy in any form.
"We were trying to address some of the rhetoric we heard back...
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