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    To meet Paris climate targets, some power plants may need to take an early retirement

    by Julia Rosen, Los Angeles Times Jul 03, 2019 4 minutes

    The power plants, factories, vehicles and appliances in use today could make it all but impossible to meet the goals of the Paris climate accord unless some are retired ahead of schedule, according to an exhaustive new analysis of the world's energy infrastructure.

    If allowed to operate for the rest of their expected lifetimes, the greenhouse gases they will produce by continuing to burn fossil fuels will raise global temperatures more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the study found.

    The results are a reality check on recent pronouncements that the world still has time to meet the Paris goals, said Steven Davis, an Earth systems scientist at the University of California, Irvine and an author

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