"James Hansen, renowned NASA climate scientist, says we should cut off access to coal at source, because it is “the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet”. Tim Flannery, who visited NZ recently, has said the same: “There is so much carbon buried in theworld’s coal seams [alone] that, should it find its way back to thesurface, it would make the planet hostile to life as we know it.”
Climate carbon negotiations: a black hole, and a new idea
by Claire Browning
