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April 30, 2012

We're Messing Up the Clean-Energy Transition

David Roberts, Grist


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. . .Progress is inadequate — relative to the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees C — on virtually every low-carbon technology except onshore wind and solar (click for a larger version of this chart. . .

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