{"id":7538,"date":"2012-12-23T07:32:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2012-12-23T07:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:32:49","slug":"bbc-coal-to-equal-oil-as-worlds-top-energy-source-within-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/bbc-coal-to-equal-oil-as-worlds-top-energy-source-within-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"(BBC)  &#8216;Coal to equal oil as world&#8217;s top energy source within 10 years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that coal will catch up with oil as the world&#8217;s leading energy source by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea.org\/newsroomandevents\/pressreleases\/2012\/december\/name,34441,en.html\">report<\/a>, the Agency says that increased demand from India and China are fuelling the push&#8230;Natural gas offers the best hope of reducing carbon emissions in the short term the report concludes&#8230;.It comes as the European Union acknowledged that it has been unable to fund a single project to capture and store CO2.<\/p>\n<p>Economic and population growth in developing countries are spurring the drive for coal says the IEA,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-20770245\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7539\" title=\"_64832984_c0117242-coal_fired_power_station-spl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/64832984_c0117242-coal_fired_power_station-spl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/64832984_c0117242-coal_fired_power_station-spl.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/64832984_c0117242-coal_fired_power_station-spl-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-20770245<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that coal will catch up with oil as the world&#8217;s leading energy source by 2022. In a report, the Agency says that increased demand from India and China are fuelling the push&#8230;Natural gas offers the best hope of reducing carbon emissions in the short term the report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}