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A crack in the natural-gas bridge

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Integrated assessment models show that, without new climate policies, abundant supplies of natural gas will have little impact on greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change. See Letter p.482

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Figure 1: Relative growth of gas and renewable electricity.

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  1. Steven J. Davis and Christine Shearer are in the Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA.,

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