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| From | jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Meeting a Global Carbon Limit Is Cheaper Than Avoiding One |
| Date | 2015-11-25 23:47 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <dtthic-5co.ln1@mail.specsol.com> (permalink) |
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote: > Meeting a Global Carbon Limit Is Cheaper Than Avoiding One >> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meeting-a-global-carbon-limit-is-cheaper-than-avoiding-one/ > > >> Can we do it? Climate scientist James E. Hansen has made a compelling >> case that we could pull 100 billion tons of carbon from the air by >> massive reforestation?limiting land use enough to allow forests to >> grow back to their extent before human deforestation. That, along >> with reducing carbon emissions by several percent a year, which is >> challenging but doable, could meet the 2? C stabilization target. >> >> History is replete with preemptive declarations of infeasibility that >> proved misguided. As Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress >> said in response to climate critics, ?Thank goodness these pundits >> weren't around when we had to do something really difficult, like >> suffer millions of casualties and remake our entire economy almost >> overnight to win World War II.? An inspired agreement at the COP21 >> climate summit in Paris this month could kick-start an ambitious but >> entirely feasible effort. >> >> The key factor is that there are technological innovations and >> economies of scale that emerge only in the course of actually doing >> something. The price of solar cells globally, for example, has >> dropped by more than 50 percent over the past several years as China >> has ramped up production. Those who say ?no we can't? are engaging in >> self-fulfilling prophecy. The U.S. has never been a nation of >> no-we-canters. >> >> Even with innovation and scaling up, we may at some point have to >> deploy ?direct-air capture? technology, which pulls carbon dioxide >> out of the atmosphere. That would be expensive, but Klaus Lackner, an >> engineering professor at Arizona State University, is confident that >> the cost could be brought down to $30 a ton with volume >> manufacturing. The sky is falling! The sky is falling! What a pile of steaming, hysterical shit. -- Jim Pennino
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Meeting a Global Carbon Limit Is Cheaper Than Avoiding One Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 15:32 -0600 Re: Meeting a Global Carbon Limit Is Cheaper Than Avoiding One jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-25 23:47 +0000 Re: Meeting a Global Carbon Limit Is Cheaper Than Avoiding One gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-25 23:34 -0600
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