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Gas is not a transition fuel to a safe climate. That ship has sailed – Sydney Morning Herald
A former Australian chief scientist argues against the government’s push for a “gas-led” recovery. Increasing gas development to displace coal, she writes, is no longer a viable approach to maintaining a safe climate.
Consistent with other research, the report demonstrates that to have a 66 per cent chance of holding warming to well below 2 degrees, coal, oil and gas production must all decline significantly in the next decade. That is why increasing gas development to displace coal is no longer a viable approach to maintaining a reasonably safe climate.
Possible trajectories for fossil fuel production from 2015 to 2040 for coal, oil and gas. Each fossil fuel must separately stay within the shaded zones for …
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