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Agree, and yet (assuming we reach that happy place) what happens next? Who decides how high to wind the global thermostat? Would countries who have benefited fr
by beachy 4y ago
Agree, and yet (assuming we reach that happy place) what happens next? Who decides how high to wind the global thermostat? Would countries who have benefited from increased temperatures (Russia perhaps) all fall in line and happily agree to go back to (say) pre-industrial revolution levels of CO2?
- kuhewa 4y agoI'm not sure we need to worry about that until we are magically able to sustain negative or net zero emissions globally. On the present horizon at least it looks like we will be settling for somewhere around two degrees above from pre-industrial temperatures.
- ido 4y agoEven once (if) we get to negative co2 it will take centuries for the temperatures to drop back to pre-industrial levels. We’re still taking “only” slowing down temperature increase for well beyond the lifetime of anyone alive today.
- lozenge 4y agoIsn't that the same issue as currently? Every country that extracts fossil fuels is deciding to turn up the global thermostat, but rather than calling it out as a decision, we treat it as a default or an irrelevant consequence.