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Cant do that fast enough, and it takes too much land... its generally old large trees that sequester more carbon - maybe not cutting those down yields better ba
by jgord 3y ago
Cant do that fast enough, and it takes too much land... its generally old large trees that sequester more carbon - maybe not cutting those down yields better bang for buck.
Were almost at +1.5C, at current plateau of peak global emissions that will increase at around 0.3C per decade, taking us to around +2C in 15 to 20 years..
+2C is not really compatible with large human population - food production, water supply, shelter, peak heatwaves, storms etc.
So we need a way to survive "peak heat" - only things to bring the heat down are removing CO2 at massive scale, or reflect more sunlight over the oceans by increasing cloud cover by solar radiation management geoengineering, such as releasing Sulphur particulates.
We know the latter works because we can measure the cooling effect that higher sulphur in shipping fuels had, before we made shipping fuels 'cleaner'.
For more info, I recommend these talks :
Leon Simons: Aerosol Demasking and Global Heating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPAnoSt6FnY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPAnoSt6FnY
Dr Peter Irvine : Could solar geoengineering have a role in future climate policy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgaB5VS-oOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgaB5VS-oOw
Hansens recent "Global warming in the Pipeline" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7WalxKtB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7WalxKtB8
https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889 https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889