You Give Me Planetary Fever: On China's Coal & Global Warming

There’s a good piece in today’s Scientific American about China’s coal use/addiction, located here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-china-avoid-the-carbon-trap-of-coal
It has some excellent quotes, including this one: “Described with a little poetic licence, global warming is a planetary fever caused by burning too much of our past.”