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"If you look at the recent IPCC reports, people are heavily betting on putting carbon back into the stable form" This is more due to its political palatibility
by lozenge 8y ago
"If you look at the recent IPCC reports, people are heavily betting on putting carbon back into the stable form"
This is more due to its political palatibility than its scientific value. It allows conclusions like "12 years to save the world" (not actually what the report says, but what the media was able to spin it as, and OP's interpretation) instead of a more honest assessment.
As for the EU's carbon trading scheme, it's a joke and efforts to strengthen it have failed due to lack of political will.
- aoner 8y agoIn all scenario's we need negative emissions. If you're interested in the topic, there is a really cool stanford seminar by Brentz Constantz (Cofounder of BluePlanet LTD) about viable ways to do negative emissions that are cost effective without carbon trading schemes. It gives you a very good idea of the amount of carbon that is already in the air and needs to be taken out. What's your solution for/take on all of this?
- aoner 8y agoSorry forgot the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvtHPF1ng0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvtHPF1ng0s If you're interested in carbon sequestration this is super interesting