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From the article: “A rise of 10 metres by the year 2500 is predicted, according to the bleakest scenarios. This dam is therefore mainly a call to do something a
by magduf 7y ago
From the article: “A rise of 10 metres by the year 2500 is predicted, according to the bleakest scenarios. This dam is therefore mainly a call to do something about climate change now. If we do nothing, this extreme dam might just be the only solution.”
Building these dams will be a lot easier than getting people to stop driving SUVs and pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.
- amrox 7y agoNot sure if you're serious, but transportation is only 14% of emissions. Electricity, agriculture and industry are all individually bigger contributors. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
- kyuudou 7y agoWhy are militaries rarely mentioned as GGG contributors?
- vondur 7y agoGood question, maybe they are still included in some of the current categories?
- rtkwe 7y agoIt's hard to get data. Countries were explicitly allowed to ignore/not report military emissions by the Kyoto Accords. Without the mandatory reporting anyone trying to write about it has to gather a lot of information about the inner workings of military logistics (amount of tonnage moved by what method etc) that the government is quite reluctant to provide. https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-greenhouse-gases-140-countries-1445674 https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-greenhouse-gases-140-co...
- magduf 7y agoIt's too bad because it's got to be pretty horrible. If they could just get the data for the amount of diesel/jet fuel consumed, that would tell us a lot. The US military burned a ridiculous amount of diesel fuel in Afghanistan just to try to air-condition tents in the desert.
- netsharc 7y agoHey, your landlord called me and he said he's going to reduce your rent by 14%. Deal, or no deal?
- british_india 7y agoYou fool! If we don't stop polluting CO2, there will be no where on earth where we can live. This cannot be mitigated away. There are multiple dozen positive feedback loops that will take us to oblivion.