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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Global Warming - ‘Negative Emissions’ Technology

Guardian UK: EU says 1.5C global warming target depends on ‘negative emissions’ technology - EU climate chief says that aspirational 1.5C target was put into Paris climate deal at insistence of ‘most exposed countries’ and will require new strategies

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

The unspoken HOPE and it's a real reach is that developing scientific breakthroughs in materials science for the capture and processing of CO2 and Methane will be coming online at some pt. in the future and that these technologies plus better land management and agricultural techniques will somehow start to reduce the amounts of these gases not just level them off. It's all just a fantasy from what I can see. Yes, the technologies are arriving , but they are all still just in the labs and none of them are actually being financed or developed yet on a mass scale. It's not Sci Fi , but it's also not reality by a long shot. So, basically a lot of what Paris was about was a movement of science futurists and positivists that are selling these notions to the world's leaders. Basically, what their saying is it's no big deal we can solve this Engineering and cash. Of course it's Engineering and cash that has got us in this awful fix in the first place.

Jim Sande said...

Yes, the thinking is to keep burning the fossil fuels and let technology somehow figure out how to fix it in the future. That's a plan eh. Well hold onto your hats.