<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Gore embraces 350 ppm target at Poznan]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Pangolin http://www.grist.org/article/thus-spake-zara-gore-a/ Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:08:32 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/thus-spake-zara-gore-a/1 That's negative net emissions.

Meaning that all the talks about reductions of emissions by 10%-30% by 2020 or 80% by 2050 are just so much hot air. (sorry) That amounts to no cars, no aircraft, no trains and no industry emitting greenhouse gases. Agriculture and shipping would need to convert as fast as possible from fossil fuels but starvation shouldn't be an option.

At the same time tens of thousands of test plots would have to be planted and monitored to understand the effects of biochar on specific crops. Then we need another ten or twelve ways of increasing the mineralization of atmospheric and oceanic CO2.

And still we're going to be too late to prevent massive climate change effects. Doomers are optimists.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> That's negative net emissions.

Meaning that all the talks about reductions of emissions by 10%-30% by 2020 or 80% by 2050 are just so much hot air. (sorry) That amounts to no cars, no aircraft, no trains and no industry emitting greenhouse gases. Agriculture and shipping would need to convert as fast as possible from fossil fuels but starvation shouldn't be an option.

At the same time tens of thousands of test plots would have to be planted and monitored to understand the effects of biochar on specific crops. Then we need another ten or twelve ways of increasing the mineralization of atmospheric and oceanic CO2.

And still we're going to be too late to prevent massive climate change effects. Doomers are optimists.

Put the Carbon Back

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