Did you know that we can pretty much blame climate change on mushrooms? Yeah, fungi might not have sorted out how to decompose tree bark 33 million years ago and let all that energy dense organic material get squished and highly pressurized underground until it turned into coal.

And now the burning of coal is dumping SO MUCH, so much, carbon into the atmosphere. Not good friends.

 

Video Sources:

http://content.sierraclub.org/coal/

http://www.worldcoal.org/resources/coal-statistics/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvMor6ZZ3fc&feature=youtu.be 

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/brief_coal.html#.Vc4MkFNViko

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Striving to be "The Infinite Probability Drive within the Heart of Gold," Miriam's interests include accidentally purchasing everything in purple, going deep on the frisbee field, local food, and taking the stairs. She studied film at Middlebury College even though she won't admit it (her degree was in Environmental Studies).

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