Is 'Net-Zero' Carbon Goal to Rescue the Climate Plausible?

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By John H. Cushman Jr.Feb 20, 2015, 8:00 am68 pts
The most striking recent development to emerge from UN climate negotiations is the growing consensus that within a generation the whole world will have to stop spewing carbon dioxide into the air from energy use. This means that within the lifetimes of today's toddlers we would entirely eliminate CO2 emissions,…

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