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Science Notes & News

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COAL COMSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE

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The furnaces of the world are now

burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of 

coal a year. When this is burned,

uniting with oxygen, it adds about

7,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide

to the atmosphere yearly. This tends

to make the air more effective blan-

ket for the earth and to raise its

temperature. The effect may be con-

siderable en a few centuries.

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