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2 Industrial Revolution at a rate

Original calculations were derived from: Scott Mandia, ”Global Warming: Man or Myth: And You Think the Oil Spill Is Bad?,” June 17, 2010, profmandia.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/and-you-think-the-oil-spill-is-bad/. Mandia's original calculations were revised to reflect later scientific estimates of the number of barrels per day. Source: Marcia McKnutt et al., ”Review of Flow Rate Estimates of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 20, 2011.

3 prospective extinction of 20 to 50 percent of all the living species

Nicholas Stern, The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

4 400,000 Hiros.h.i.+ma atomic bombs

James Hansen, ”Why I Must Speak Out About Climate Change,” TED Talks, February 2012.

5 already compet.i.tive with the average grid price for electricity

”Commercial Solar Now Cost-Compet.i.tive in US,” CleanTechnica, June 20, 2012, cleantechnica.com/2012/06/20/commercial-solar-now-cost-compet.i.tive-us/; ”Wind Innovations Drive Down Costs, Stock Prices,” Bloomberg, March 14, 2012, go.bloomberg.com/multimedia/wind-innovations-drive-down-costs-stock-prices/; ”Grid Parity and Beyond: Brazilian Wind Energy Supported by Turbines Manufactured at 'Chinese Prices,' ” CleanTechInvestor, August 29, 2011, /events/es/bwec-blog/301-grid-parity-and-beyond-brazilian-wind-energy-supported-by-turbines-manufactured-at-chinese-prices-.html.

6 renewables will be the second-largest source of power generation by 2015

International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2012.

7 each and every hour than would be needed for all of the world's energy consumption

Nathan Lewis and Daniel Nocera, ”Powering the Planet: Chemical Challenges in Solar Energy Utilization,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (October 2006): 1572935.

8 wind energy also exceeds

Xi Lu et al., ”Global Potential for Wind-Generated Electricity,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (June 2009): 1093338.

9 there were periods when Germany

Reuters, ”Solar Power Generation World Record Set in Germany,” Guardian, May 28, 2012.

10 entire world's additional electricity generation