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This tool tells you how fossil fuel emissions actually translate into heat deaths, coral reef damage, and more

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This tool tells you how fossil fuel emissions actually translate into heat deaths, coral reef damage, and more. Every new fossil fuel project that comes online will add more climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into our atmosphere. But just reporting how many tonnes (metric tons) of CO2 a new coal or gas facility will produce can still be abstract. What does it really mean, for example, that a single coal mine in Australia will generate an estimated 4.7 billion tonnes of emissions over its lifetime? How will those emissions actually, tangibly impact the world and its inhabitants? A new open-source.

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