Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
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Re: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
#2White on black? Seriously? Thanks to Firefox for reading mode.
Re: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
#3Why isn't there a billion dollar reward to any person or company that comes up with a cost-effective way to capture carbon from the air and convert back to solid carbon? I'd love to understand the physics (or chemistry? maybe economy?) that prevents this from materialising.
Re: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
#4Great read. It's always interesting to see how individuals (John Sununu, Rush Limbaugh) have the capacity to change the arc of history - against prevailing wisdom and agreed facts. Sure, they had massive support from the oil industry, but Europe also has an oil industry and it didn't change Europe's stance on climate change.
For a real-time update on climate change, just look at the canary in the cold-mine - Arctic Sea Ice. I have a look daily in summer to see if we will again break the record minimum and when the summer will be ice-free there - it will happen within a decade or two at the most. For Arctic sea ice voyeurs, check this out: https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/
Re: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
#5White on black? Seriously? Thanks to Firefox for reading mode.
You may want to keep scrolling and check the whole (and it's huge) post.
Re: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
#6Why isn't there a billion dollar reward to any person or company that comes up with a cost-effective way to capture carbon from the air and convert back to solid carbon? I'd love to understand the physics (or chemistry? maybe economy?) that prevents this from materialising.
We have a solution - reduce carbon/methane emissions. Why bet the bank on a technology that hasn't been invented yet? If you said to somebody with 100 billion dollars: capture as much carbon as you can. What would they do? I would just plant trees for that money. Sure, we need basic research on carbon sequestration, but we need fundamental breakthroughs to make it happen. Time, we don't have.
Re: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
#7Why isn't there a billion dollar reward to any person or company that comes up with a cost-effective way to capture carbon from the air and convert back to solid carbon? I'd love to understand the physics (or chemistry? maybe economy?) that prevents this from materialising.
While I don't really know much about the area, one option that I hear has possible potential is forests and then convert them to biochar. Downside is that you obviously need huge quantities of land that some would want to use for farming etc.
Re: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
#8White on black? Seriously? Thanks to Firefox for reading mode.
Funny, I do opposite. I have reading mode set to white on black.
Re: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
#9Why isn't there a billion dollar reward to any person or company that comes up with a cost-effective way to capture carbon from the air and convert back to solid carbon? I'd love to understand the physics (or chemistry? maybe economy?) that prevents this from materialising.
We have a solution - reduce carbon/methane emissions. Why bet the bank on a technology that hasn't been invented yet? If you said to somebody with 100 billion dollars: capture as much carbon as you can. What would they do? I would just plant trees for that money. Sure, we need basic research on carbon sequestration, but we need fundamental breakthroughs to make it happen. Time, we don't have.
>We have a solution - reduce carbon/methane emissions. Why bet the bank on a technology that hasn't been invented yet?
Unfortunately we haven't invented the technology to implement your broad brush "solution" either.
In fact, I'm skeptical about the claim Climate Change could have been solved generations ago, given that we still haven't developed the means to do it yet.
Edit: okay, perhaps nuclear could provide us with the masses of power generation we need, but that's been ruled out.
Re: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
#10Great read. It's always interesting to see how individuals (John Sununu, Rush Limbaugh) have the capacity to change the arc of history - against prevailing wisdom and agreed facts. Sure, they had massive support from the oil industry, but Europe also has an oil industry and it didn't change Europe's stance on climate change. For a real-time update on climate change, just look at the canary in the cold-mine - Arctic S…
US emissions of CO2 have fallen much faster than Europe's. Europe likes to talk a lot but not to compromise. So while they could be fracking and displacing dirty energy sources, they instead use oil and coal where the US uses natural gas.