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I'm not a climate change denialist, but I am a climate change optimist. I think it would be possible to cap things off at two degrees, but we would have to star
by mveety 10y ago
I'm not a climate change denialist, but I am a climate change optimist. I think it would be possible to cap things off at two degrees, but we would have to start sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere and doing something with it (like big tanks or put it underground as dry ice, etc). Anyone that thinks we can stop this by producing less CO2 is deluded. We're well beyond the "unmitigated disaster for our current environment" ppm level.
If we can't fix this, at least life will evolve and move on after we and many other species go extinct due to human activity.
- throwawaycanada 10y agoMaybe now that the oceans are set to die, scientists will dump CO2 eating algae into it?
- _coldfire 10y agoI have suspicions that most world leaders are aware of the work done on the various geo-engineering mitigation strategies and are willing to risk it. Such a terrible prospect to consider but that hasn't stopped scientists and engineers planning for the worst. An ill-conceived quick fix scares me, yet seems to be more likely than global agreement to reduce emissions in the fractured world of international politics.
- JBReefer 10y agoAt least US emissions are down 20% from the 90s, we would have beat our Kyoto obligations.
- louithethrid 10y agoActually, what is not appearing in those calculations, that the ability to react with technology might shrink due to the costs added by the migrations out of parts of the earth that become uninhabitable.
- astrodust 10y agoThe problem with this is funding. If one country took it upon itself to save the planet they pay a huge price and everyone benefits, so there's no incentive to do it. It's only when things get so bad there's no option but to do it, by which it's probably too late, when everyone might decide to fuck it and go solo instead of waiting for consensus.