.4 degree Celsius<\/a>\u2014which is about exactly how much we\u2019ve already raised the planet\u2019s temperature by burning everything we\u2019ve burned since the start of the Industrial Revolution.<\/p>\nThat is to say, the tarsands alone would provide half again as much warming as we\u2019ve already experience\u2014a warming severe enough so far that summer sea ice in the Arctic has declined by 40% and the atmosphere has grown steadily wetter leading to vicious cycles of drought and flood.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s completely true, of course, that we can\u2019t burn the coal either\u2014which is why we\u2019ve worked to stop coal ports along the Pacific, mountaintop removal in Appalachia, and huge new coal-fired plants as far away as Kosovo and South Africa. We\u2019ll keep up that work.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019ll keep fighting the tarsands too\u2014because this is oil that should clearly stay in the ground. Today\u2019s study is akin to saying: “True, smoking six packs a day is going to kill you. But if you want to make certain you die, smoke a hundred packs a day. And if you really want to make sure you die tomorrow, lie down in front of a train.”<\/p>\n
p.s. Here’s a quote from NASA’s Dr. James Hansen on the recent report: “The argument that the currently known amount of carbon in the tar sands pit is small compared to the total fossil fuels burned in two centuries is fallacious and misleading — every single source, even Saudi Arabia, is small compared to the total. If we once get hooked on tar sands and set up infrastructure, the numbers will grow as mining capabilities increase. Tar sands are particularly egregious, because you get relatively less energy per unit carbon emitted and there is associated environmental damage in the mining.”<\/p>\n
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