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Cumbria coal mine could usher in a net-zero-compliant fossil fuel industry - or prove it was always a fantasy

Myles Allen, University of Oxford and Nathalie Seddon, University of Oxford, The Conversation
clock 12 February 2021 • 5 min read
Cumbria coal mine could usher in a net-zero-compliant fossil fuel industry - or prove it was always a fantasy

West Cumbria suffered a "once-in-a-thousand-year" flood in 2009. And then again in 2015. And 2019. No, it's not that meteorologists can't count. Climate change is increasing the risk of precisely the kind...

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