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A multi-Hubbert analysis of coalproduction by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley concludes that the global peak of coalproduction from existing coalfields will occur close to the year 2011. Gt C (15 Gt CO 2 ) per year, according to the study.
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