http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/01/paris-climate-conference-playing-craps-our-planets-future
Re COP 21: "The agreed upon target, 2 degrees C, is dangerously high and the pre-agreements going into Paris assure we won’t even meet that; The best case assumptions built into the IPCC’s carbon budgets designed to stay below 2C assume a 34% probability of failure; Most of the IPCC carbon budgets require our progeny to invent and build a massively expensive technology to clean up the carbon we’re releasing. The effort would dominate the economic activity of their entire society, choking off other economic activity; and Even if we manage to hold temperatures to 2 C, the carbon budgets will assure that we’ll acidify our oceans and usher in irreversible sea-level rise." ... "Negative Emissions – or après moi, le deluge: There’s one other way of expanding carbon budgets: Pass the problem on to our children and their children, so we can burn more fossil fuels now and still appear to stay within our carbon budget. And that’s precisely what the IPCC carbon budgets do. They only work if we require our offspring to create extraordinarily expensive new technologies that will take massive quantities of carbon dioxide out of the air and safely sequester it." GR Well, perhaps if we actually launch a serious CDR R&D program now maybe it won't prove to be "extraordinarily expensive" and our offspring will thank us for the foresight to scope this out. Otherwise, yeah, good luck locking in our planet's future to emissions reduction. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
