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Welcome NYT readers to the debate of the decade: Technology development vs. deployment
We've run out of time to wait for an unknown techno-fix to save us |
Joseph Romm |
08 Apr 2008 |
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| Andy Revkin wrote in The New York Times last weekend about what I believe is the climate debate of the decade. This post will serve as an introduction to this crucial topic for readers new and old. I will devote many posts this week to laying out the 'solution' to global warming, and a few to debunking the 'technology breakthrough' crowd.Why do I write so much about this topic of technology development vs. deployment, especially when it sometimes seems like I am a ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Department of Energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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Can technology alone stop global warming?
Three non-tech essentials for combating climate change |
Joseph Romm |
07 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Of course not. We need at least three other things: Major political change, to deploy the technologies fast enough. My first take on this is here ('Is 450 ppm [or less] politically possible? Part 1'). Major price change, to add a cost to emitting greenhouse gases that approximates the terrible damage done by them. All of the technology advances in renewables (or nuclear, or coal with carbon capture) that you can plausibly imagine in the next decade won't ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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