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May 13, 2022

The Guardian: Fossil Fuel Company "Climate Bombs" Risk Planetary Catastrophe
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In climate news, an investigation by The Guardian has found the world's
biggest fossil fuel companies are quietly planning scores of oil and gas
projects that would drive the climate past internationally agreed
temperature limits with catastrophic global impacts. The Guardian's
report on so-called carbon bombs found the short-term expansion plans of
companies including Exxon Mobil, Gazprom and Saudi Aramco will produce
greenhouse gases equivalent to a decade of CO2 emissions from China, the
world's biggest polluter. That's enough to shatter the Paris Climate
Agreement's goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees
Celsius.


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