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...Coal usage will grow annually about 2.5% from now to 2030, which could lead to massive increases in air pollution...
...Energy demand will rebound sharply once the recession ends and rise about 40% by 2030. Fossil fuels - oil, coal and gas - will make up about three-quarters of the global increase in energy consumption...
Gore added that television advertisements and punditry have “shaped peoples’ political consciousness,” and have convinced large amounts of people in coal-producing states to doubt the scientific claims about global warming...
Gore also framed the climate change issue in economic and security terms, arguing that much of the U.S. economic deficit and military presence in the Middle East can be traced back to “our ridiculous and absurd dependence on oil, coal, and other carbon-based fuels?...
...experts have declared the winners and losers of the weekend box office, for which the celebrity contenders were Jim Carrey in Disney's A Christmas Carol, George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats and Cameron Diaz in The Box. Headline in The Wrap: "$31M Lump of Coal for 'Christmas Carol'." And from Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood: "Happy Holidays? Not for Stars: Carrey, Clooney, & Cameron Open Soft This Weekend." Meanwhile, Variety trumpeted that "'Precious' finds special place at box office...