In Europe, the Promise and Fears of a New Fuel - NYTimes.com

With global temperatures rising, some say that pursuing new sources of fossil fuels is a recipe for disaster.

If there is any hope of keeping global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), as world leaders promised at the 2009 Copenhagen climate meeting, “then the math shows there is no space left for shale gas, or for that matter for other fossil fuels, but you certainly wouldn’t add another one to the mix,” said Kevin Anderson, a professor at the Tyndall Center for Climate Change at the University of Manchester in England.