A new note from Citigroup attacks “one of the most unassailable assumptions in global energy”—the forecast that China’s coal consumption will grow wantonly over the next two decades. By extension, it challenges apocalyptic climate change forecasts. China has accounted for 82% of the increase in global coal consumption since 2011, according to the US Energy Information Administration […]

via Quartz http://qz.com/121608/china-may-get-over-its-addiction-to-coal-sooner-than-anyone-thought/