Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief

Fatih Birol says carbon bombs', revealed in Guardian investigation, will not solve global energy crisis

The world's leading energy economist has warned against investing in large new oil and gas developments, which would have little impact on the current energy crisis and soaring fuel prices but spell devastation to the planet.

Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), was responding to an investigation in the Guardian that revealed fossil fuel companies were planning huge carbon bomb" projects that would drive climate catastrophe.