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So, what is there left to do?
by sadmann1 6y ago
So, what is there left to do?
- supercanuck 6y agoReduce carbon emissions
- WaxProlix 6y agoBuy land on hillside terraces, I suppose.
- markvdb 6y agoBought 2ha of fertile land in a remote area forecast to be positively affected by climate change. Rebuilding the holiday home there. Nice to have now. Dirt cheap insurance against so many things going south elsewhere later. Quite a few things need to line up for this to make sense, but for us, they do.
- WaxProlix 6y agoSame, but there's so many bugs out there.
- drran 6y agoColonize a cool planet and warm up it instead. :-/
- baron816 6y agoNo matter how awful Earth gets from global warming, it’s still going to be many orders of magnitude better than Mars over the next 2 centuries.
- dylan604 6y agoLet's leave the only planet to have an atmosphere that we can survive in for a planet that is no longer holding onto any atmosphere at all. Sounds like a winner to me
- omosubi 6y agoThere have been calls to put sulfur dioxide into the air above the artic to reduce sunlight about 2% and limit the amount of energy that reaches it. Sounds like we'll need to do something like that if we don't want to turn places like Florida and southern Vietnam into ocean
- jsmith12673 6y agoFor this to be effective you'll need: - Global agreement and partnership, since you need to decrease temperature globally to make a dent - Convince everyone that injecting aersols into the atmosphere is the only alternative to catastrophic warming (view in contrast to convincing people of the efficacy of vaccines etc.) Both of these are incredibly challenging undertakings, even without trying to address the issue of continually acidifying oceans. And yet, sadly I feel like this is the only most realistic option out of them all.
- dylan604 6y agoYes, there's exactly 0% chance that this ends badly. I don't know why the lady swallowed the dog to chase the cat to catch the bird to eat the spider...
- omosubi 6y agoI'm not saying it's a good idea, just that it's a proposed solution. We'll need to do something rather drastic if we want to have any chance of saving the world as it is today
- imtringued 6y agoGoodbye blue sky!
- option 6y agocarbon taxes
- dlivingston 6y agoI am a huge proponent of carbon sequestration. Colleagues of mine at Los Alamos National Laboratory are doing interesting R&D on this front.
- devmunchies 6y agoIf we’re all gonna die, might as well let COVID-19 do it’s job and stop social distancing and mask wearing.
- dylan604 6y agoSciFi theories say diseases like COVID-19 are only supposed to thin out the herd, not eradicate it. It's like an evolutionary test or something. I'm still waiting for the Monolith to show up to start zapping the members of the species that can't evolve to the next step.
- mhh__ 6y ago1) Get the White House (and the rest of the state) under non-climate denying control. The USA has to do better - per capita emissions are something like 4 or 5 times worse than the UK (for example). Any form of moral leadership would be nice from the Republican Party would be nice (The Statistics are depressingly split over party lines https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/11/25/u-s-public-views-on-climate-and-energy/ https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/11/25/u-s-public-vi...) 2) Carbon Taxes everywhere 3) Eliminate coal power from the developing world, even if it means switching to gas in the short term. 4) CCS - current efforts already seem surprisingly doable (single digit trillions IIRC)
- alacombe 6y ago> 2) Carbon Taxes everywhere Which was locally recently show to be ineffective - https://biv.com/article/2020/08/bc-carbon-tax-ineffective-ceri https://biv.com/article/2020/08/bc-carbon-tax-ineffective-ce...
- mhh__ 6y ago> It would be more effective in curbing emissions if it were higher, she said https://phys.org/news/2020-01-british-carbon-tax-coal-fired-electricity.html https://phys.org/news/2020-01-british-carbon-tax-coal-fired-... There is at least some evidence of success in the UK (combined with other policy + economic reality). Our climate policy is probably the only thing the government have done well recently - dwarfed by the impending iceberg of Brexit.
- danbolt 6y agoI'm reading the article, and one of the researchers (Dinara Millington) suggests increasing the Carbon Taxes to make them more effective.
- ultrablack 6y agoExactly: researchers promoting policy. This why people are sceptic.
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