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SUBMITTER: Steckel JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4517254 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Steckel Jan Christoph JC Edenhofer Ottmar O Jakob Michael M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150706 29
Coal was central to the industrial revolution, but in the 20th century it increasingly was superseded by oil and gas. However, in recent years coal again has become the predominant source of global carbon emissions. We show that this trend of rapidly increasing coal-based emissions is not restricted to a few individual countries such as China. Rather, we are witnessing a global renaissance of coal majorly driven by poor, fast-growing countries that increasingly rely on coal to satisfy their grow ...[more]