Coal, Oil, and Gas Warming (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Coal, Oil, and Gas Warming

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This graph shows the ratio of warming from accumulated atmospheric carbon dioxide to warming from combustion for coal, oil, and gas plants over time. Figure is simplified from Zhang and Caldeira's paper (ERL, 2012)'.

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Xiaochun Zhang and Ken Caldeira

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