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Re: Meeting a Global Carbon Limit Is Cheaper Than Avoiding One

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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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