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Sure but with solar, wind and HVDC prices now below the cost of coal and continuing to drop, with transportation starting down the slippery cost slope of electr
by sunstone 6y ago
Sure but with solar, wind and HVDC prices now below the cost of coal and continuing to drop, with transportation starting down the slippery cost slope of electrification, with China's mass build out with concrete and steel starting to wane in 2030 and beyond and finally with the world population bending the curve around 2050 there will be a dramatic lowering of new atmospheric carbon by 2050 and beyond. Will it be enough to keep sea levels from rising quickly? Fasten your seat belt and tighter your sphincter, by 2100 we'll know if we've won or lost.
Personally I would like to see some temperature mitigation projects right now while we deal with the CO2 levels over the next 80 years.
- onecommentman 6y agoI’d personally prefer projects that provide direct and immediate(ish) benefits and whose benefits can be observed and measured near-term. Public health (including pollution), desertification, overfishing, ground water management, population growth and distribution... Then maybe give an extra nudge to those projects that are robustly expected to produce temperature mitigation effects based on 2020 climate models. And what are those interventions that are most robust to changes in the structural assumptions underlying those models? Maintain and grow current levels of environmental and earth science research as a matter of course. We live here. No need to hide behind the petticoats of climate change...