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Coal and climate change

2025· book-chapter· en· W4408030474 on OpenAlex
Wu Yang, Ben Wang, Rajender Gupta

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Bibliographic record

VenueEnergy and Climate Change · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicCarbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClimate changeCoalEnvironmental scienceWaste managementGeologyEngineeringOceanography

Abstract

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Coal plays an important role in the world energy system , and the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) generated during its utilization has a significant impact on the global greenhouse effect and climate change . This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelationships between climate change, greenhouse gas emissions , coal utilization, and low-carbon technologies. It discusses the causes and consequences of climate change, emphasizing the significant impact of fossil fuel combustion, particularly coal, on global warming , and highlights the urgent need to address climate change, as rising levels of CO 2 concentration have disrupted the global carbon cycle and led to evident signs of global warming. It also emphasizes the importance of transitioning from coal to cleaner and more sustainable energy sources to mitigate the impact of climate change on the planet and future generations. The content delves into the role of coal in electricity production and heavy industry, acknowledging its historical importance while recognizing the environmental challenges it poses. It also discusses various approaches to reducing CO 2 emissions associated with coal consumption, such as integrated coal gasification combined cycle, integrated coal gasification fuel-cell combined cycle, carbon capture and storage , carbon capture and utilization technologies. This chapter emphasizes the need for continuous research and development of clean energy technologies and international cooperation to address the global challenges of climate change. Overall, people need to be more proactive and urgent in addressing climate change and transitioning towards low-carbon and sustainable energy in order to ensure a sustainable future for the planet.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.983
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.184 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it