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This is a fantastic use of science communication using design principles - particularly when you use the minigraphs and you can see the small multiples the impact and outcomes. I've always felt like more stuff like this would help bring home the imperceptible nuances of this complex web. It'd be cool to see some of this stuff for personal daily things. Just now I figured out that each time I charge my macbook pro, it…
We observe the power of a carbon tax
I'm also surprised how much of a difference nuclear can make. I mean, I know that nuclear is great as a stopgap until we build solar panels that we can actually recycle and install all the wind farms, etc. But the trouble is that a nuclear plant takes 30 years to build and for the public's opinion we might as well be proposing to move their backyards to a high tsunami risk zone or repeating all the actions that led u…
Only if your country isn't serious about it. South Korea builds modern nuclear plants in about five years: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2027347/south-korea-s...
We observe the power of a carbon tax
I'm also surprised how much of a difference nuclear can make. I mean, I know that nuclear is great as a stopgap until we build solar panels that we can actually recycle and install all the wind farms, etc. But the trouble is that a nuclear plant takes 30 years to build and for the public's opinion we might as well be proposing to move their backyards to a high tsunami risk zone or repeating all the actions that led u…
Does anyone have a list of startups and established companies actively working on any of those crucial solutions?
Only found this through a quick Github search:
https://github.com/flamato/awesome-climate-change-ressources...
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Correct but there is nothing preventing the use of Passivhaus technology in commercial buildings.
Includes heavy industry presumably? e.g. no such thing as passivhaus blast furnance or a passivhaus lime kiln.
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CO2 is still in the atmosphere.
For those who would like to fix that, https://climeworks.com They seem to currently be the only reliable way of taking CO2 out of the air that is available to consumers. (I've got a subscription with them but am not vested in them in any other way. Well, other than for the survival of our current ecosystem.) You can also plant trees with a thousand and one different organisations, much cheaper than Climeworks per kil…
The authors don't include some extremely nasty feedback loops the appear to currently be happening. For example, methane release from permafrost melt. As a result, the simulation appears to be misleadingly optimistic. - This tool is based on climate interactive's previous one, C-Road. - in the C-Road simulation when you click on parameters -> assumptions to add parameters about methane release through permafrost melt…
Also, other feedback mechanisms seem to get little attention. Are we only looking to model the feedback mechanisms that reinforce a narrative of cataclysm?
Don't other feedback mechanisms exist that lessen CO2 concentrations, or temperature dissipation?
High taxation of fossil energy together with rolling-out of new energy/carbon-removal technology seem to be a real way out of this catastrophe. Does anyone have a list of startups and established companies actively working on any of those crucial solutions? Only found this through a quick Github search: https://github.com/flamato/awesome-climate-change-ressources...
High taxation of fossil energy together with rolling-out of new energy/carbon-removal technology seem to be a real way out of this catastrophe. Does anyone have a list of startups and established companies actively working on any of those crucial solutions? Only found this through a quick Github search: https://github.com/flamato/awesome-climate-change-ressources...
Taxation needs to be agreed upon at the international level.
CO2 has an atmospheric half-lifetime on the order of decades. If we would just switch to zero emission energy, like nuclear power, we could get through the next century and survive.
High taxation of fossil energy together with rolling-out of new energy/carbon-removal technology seem to be a real way out of this catastrophe. Does anyone have a list of startups and established companies actively working on any of those crucial solutions? Only found this through a quick Github search: https://github.com/flamato/awesome-climate-change-ressources...
There is a lot to do with engine size and vehicle size and weight, especially in the US.
Nuclear energy and trains are possible, even if they require electrifying the railroads.
Drastically reduce beef consumption is also a thing to do.
Not sure about those "carbon removal" techs. A lot of the CO2 tends to go in the atmosphere.
The biggest problem is a political one: You can't fight unemployment and inequality and try to reduce emissions. I can see ideology being a big problem when dealing with climate change. Although fighting climate change can also be an opportunity to steer away from an ideology of competition and go back to cooperation, because politically it WILL BE a nightmare. Things can also derail into complete anarchy where it becomes everyone for himself, where poor people will have to bear high temperatures.