Why Meeting the Paris Climate Goals Is an Existential Threat to Fossil Fuel Industries

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By GuestNov 22, 2017, 2:01 pm256 pts
By Henry Kelly, University of Michigan Attacks on climate policies are not really about the science. They’re about the future of fossil fuels. Any program with a reasonable chance of meeting the goals embraced by the 2016 Paris accords (holding global temperature increases below 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius…

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