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Sent: Friday, July 5, 2013 12:21:58 PM
Subject: Re: [geo] CRD: not very relevant and a distraction
In my mind, the question of what is CDR and what is not, is a matter of scale
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Sent: Friday, July 5, 2013 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: [geo] CRD: not very relevant and a distraction
Hi Greg,
I guess I may as well weigh in on this … my intent in writing our reply to your
letter was not to label CDRers
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Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 6:21 AM
Subject: RE: [geo] CRD: not very relevant and a distraction
I don't think CDR makes any real sense until we stop using fossil fuels at
scale
: Michael Hayes
Subject: RE: [geo] CRD: not very relevant and a distraction
If you believe the 'facts' are that CDR using your method can (at
realistic cost) attenuate all future temperature rise, then I encourage you
to publish your results asap (or post a citation to an existing reference
If you look at current emissions (too high and still rising slightly), plus
the lock-in effect of current and near-term planned infrastructure (e.g.
the WRI report on massive planned worldwide coal plant additions), I don't
think it even makes sense to discuss CDR as anything but an active form
Klaus Lackner and I tried to inject some hope and optimism into the earlier
climate change mitigation discussion by Matthews and Solomon:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6140/1522.2.full
MS reply:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6140/1523.1.full
They summarize:
In a discussion of
I think a better argument against CDR is that it's so slow to act that you
probably wouldn't want to pull down the temperature once it's been high for
so long.
Would we really want to go right back to pre industrial temperatures today?
If not, why should we assume that future generations will
Good grief!
But...the CROPS method and biochar we can use immediately and catch 15% of
global emissions NOW.
Using natural mechanisms is faster, cheaper, smarter. As Greg said.
Gregory Benford
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Andrew Lockley andrew.lock...@gmail.comwrote:
I think a better
