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King coal’s climate challenge / Andrew Steer, Project Syndicate, 9/11/2013http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/andrew-steer-provides-a-reality-check-on-the-climate-change-implications-of-continued-reliance-on-coal-powerCoal is emerging as a major topic of conversation at the United Nations climate-change negotiations currently taking place in Warsaw – and rightly so. Indeed, it is a discussion that the world needs to have. The latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conclude that we are quickly using up our carbon “budget” – the amount of carbon that we can afford to emit while still having a good chance of limiting global warming to 2º Celsius...