2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #30

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. 

Editor's Pick

Energy poverty is a real problem. Coal is a bogus solution

Coal only makes global poverty worse.

 Scavening coal from an open-cast coal mine in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

Villagers carry illegally scavenged coal from an open-cast coal mine in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, on December 6, 2014. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images) 

recent paper from 12 international poverty and development organizations (led by the Overseas Development Institute) argues the negative. In fact, the opposite is true: Not only will more coal plants do nothing for energy access, they will impose unnecessary suffering on the poor.

Energy poverty is a real problem. Coal is a bogus solution. by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, July 24, 2017

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