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The Alberta oil sands and climate

Nature Climate Changevolume 2, pages134–136 (2012)Cite this article

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The claimed economic benefits of exploiting the vast Alberta oil-sand deposits need to be weighed against the need to limit global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

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Figure 1: Central estimate of the potential for warming of the different fossil-fuel resources inTable 1.

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  1. Neil C. Swart and Andrew J. Weaver are at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3V6, Canada,

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