WHY THE rIGHT IS TRYING TO PROP UP CARBONS:

"The low-carbon transition could lead to a period of global financial and political instability due to the combination of deep structural change, widespread financial loss and reorganization in financial and market power worldwide," a group of researchers from British universities said in a landmark paper, published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Their calculations show more than half of Russia's estimated $3.9 trillion stock of fossil fuel assets -- such as oil and gas rigs, pipelines, extraction facilities and other infrastructure to support the country's vital energy sector -- would become "stranded," or effectively worth nothing, by 2036.

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