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Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-tough-world-carbon-diet.html
> 
> 
>> The world is about to go on a carbon diet. It won't be easy?or
>> cheap.

Or will it actually happen.

>> Nearly 200 nations across the world on Saturday approved a
>> first-of-its-kind universal agreement to wean Earth off fossil fuels
>> and slow global warming, patting themselves on the back for showing
>> such resolve.
>>
>> On Sunday morning, like for many first day dieters, the reality sets
>> in. The numbers?like calorie limits and hours needed in the gym?are
>> daunting.

The reality is the agreement is meaningless.

>> How daunting? Try more than 7.04 billion tons (if you really want to
>> have your eyes bug out, that's 15.5 trillion pounds). That's how much
>> carbon dioxide needs to stay in the ground instead of being spewed
>> into the atmosphere for those reductions to happen, even if you take
>> the easier of two goals mentioned in Saturday's deal. To get to the
>> harder goal, it's even larger numbers.
>>
>> In the pact, the countries pledged to limit global warming to about
>> another degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) from now?and if they
>> can, only half that.
>>
>> Another, more vague, goal is that by sometime in the second half of
>> the century, man-made greenhouse gas emissions?which includes methane
>> and other heat-trapping gases as well as carbon dioxide?won't exceed
>> the amount that nature absorbs. Earth's carbon cycle, which is
>> complex and ever-changing, would have to get back to balance.
>>
>> In practice, that means the world has to emit close to zero
>> greenhouse gases by 2070 to reach the easier goal, or by 2050 to
>> reach the harder one, said John Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam
>> Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
>>
>> Oh and by the way, the harder goal?limit warming by another half a
>> degree Celsius (0.9 Fahrenheit)? is probably already impossible, said
>> Joeri Rogelj at the International Institute for Applied Systems
>> Analysis in Austria. Most likely the best the world can hope for is
>> overshooting that temperature by a few tenths of a degree and then
>> somehow slowly?over decades if not centuries?come back to the target
>> temperature.
> 
> 
>   We are going to have to get back to healthy soil and agricultural
>   practices, remove CO2 from the atmosphere, green building and move
>   completely to green energy.
 
While all holding hands and singing kumbaya in the cold. 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 20:41 -0600
  Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-14 03:29 +0000
  Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-13 23:09 -0600
    Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-14 13:22 -0600
  Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-12-14 14:01 -0800
    Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 16:10 -0600
      Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-14 22:47 +0000

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