If we are to have a chance at forestalling global warming, some fossil fuels will have to be left in the ground. Coal, fracking, offshore oil drilling, tar sands ~ these are all highly polluting energy sources, and we have to do better ...
`It’s simple math: we can emit 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. The only problem? Burning the fossil fuel that corporations now have in their reserves would result in emitting 2,795 gigatons of carbon dioxide — five times the safe amount. Fossil fuel companies are planning to burn it all — unless we rise up to stop them.` http://math.350.org
If we are to have a chance at forestalling global warming, some fossil fuels will have to be left in the ground. Coal, fracking, offshore oil drilling, tar sands ~ these are all highly polluting energy sources, and we have to do better ...
`It’s simple math: we can emit 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. The only problem? Burning the fossil fuel that corporations now have in their reserves would result in emitting 2,795 gigatons of carbon dioxide — five times the safe amount. Fossil fuel companies are planning to burn it all — unless we rise up to stop them.` http://math.350.org