{"id":3724,"date":"2015-01-07T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2015-01-07T12:47:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:47:27","slug":"how-much-fossil-fuel-can-we-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/how-much-fossil-fuel-can-we-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"How much fossil fuel can we exploit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada would need to leave 75 per cent of its oil in the ground as part of a global effort to cap global warming at two\u00a0degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a new study shows.\u00a0The authors\u00a0also conclude that the exploitation of resources in the Arctic should be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Using computer models, the authors found that a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves, and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves in the world should remain unused over the next 40 years in order to meet that target.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature14016\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>January\u00a07<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Christophe McGlade, University College London, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada would need to leave 75 per cent of its oil in the ground as part of a global effort to cap global warming at two\u00a0degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a new study shows.\u00a0The authors\u00a0also conclude that the exploitation of resources in the Arctic should be ruled out. Using computer models, the authors found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[185,31,1445,215,2347,645],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-arctic","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-oil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Y4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}