2009Jan23: Global CO2 emissions from burning coal.
2009Jan23: CO2 emissions from burning coal produces about 20% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide (Newsweek, 2008).
Reference: Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/id/181143/page/2
Image Description: Coal power plant in Datteln, Germany, at the Dortmund-Ems-Kanal. Photo by Arnold Paul, 2006Apr5. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coal_power_plant_Datteln_2.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.
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