If you burn a lump of coal, the greenhouse effect from the carbon dioxide released from burning that coal will, over its…

If you burn a lump of coal, the greenhouse effect from the carbon dioxide released from burning that coal will, over its lifetime in the atmosphere, heat the Earth about 100,000 times more than the thermal energy released from burning that coal.https://t.co/YyqbNXyew9

— Ken Caldeira (@KenCaldeira) June 20, 2019

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