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Reuters: Discriminating against tar sands in the name of curbing carbon emissions makes sense, but is also a distraction from a bigger question about how much fossil fuel humankind can safely burn.
A calculation of the carbon dioxide emissions embedded in global crude oil reserves shows that burning these would pump out more CO2 than many scientists and world leaders have deemed safe to the climate, after including additional emissions from deforestation and burning coal and gas.
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CO2 focus should be fossil fuels, not just tar sands
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 24th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation