Our fossil fuel addiction will forever and a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) show that global coal use will continue to increase in the next five years.

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Our fossil fuel addiction will forever and a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) show that global coal use will continue to increase in the next five years.




Demand for coal will increase everywhere, except the United States, where low-cost gas extraction through hydraulic solving increasingly rampant.

Finally, until 2017, the use of coal would be similar to the use of petroleum that is currently the largest source of our energy.

This is really terrible news for the Earth's climate, writes New Scientist in its online edition.

Coal produces greenhouse gases per unit of energy than any fossil fuel.

Insanity is rampant after the developed countries such as Germany slashed scale nuclear energy after the Fukushima Daiichi incident in Japan in 2011.

These countries move to build more centers of steam energy. "It's a setback," said Stuart Haszeldine at the University of Edinburgh, UK, told New Scientist.

If more coal is used, then the only chance to limit global warming by capturing greenhouse gases out of the combustion of coal.

It already exists and breeder Carbon capture technology (CCS), but there is no political will to implement it, said Haszeldine.

The EU has set aside 275 million euros for CCS, but last December stating again reluctant to finance it because the states do not agree on the required contribution.

Finally, CCS should be applied far beyond the European Union. "Addressing carbon emissions from coal means it done in India and China that will burn two-thirds of global coal until 2017," says Haszeldine