Re:Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
by catawbasam on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:27AM
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But the world doesn't end when we hit 1.5. We'll still be here, and we can still shape how much things change.
Re:Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
by ForHackernews on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:48AM
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> we can still shape how much things change.
No we can't, because most of the CO2 has already been emitted: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-four-years-left-one-poi...
Unless you invent a time machine, or as postulated by OP, some magic sequestration technology to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere and put it back in the ground, it's too late.
It's like we're in a car that's driven over a cliff, and you're saying "Well, we're still here, as long as we invent a way for this car to fly in the next 15 seconds before impact, then we'll be okay"
Because it's too late. Unless magic non-existent carbon capture technology materializes soon, we're basically fucked.
https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fos...
Check out that middle graphic. If we really want to avoid 1.5 degrees, and we can’t rely on large-scale carbon sequestration, then the global community has to zero out its carbon emissions by 2026.
Ten years from now.
That article is two years old and, to state the obvious, global CO2 emissions are not on track to reach zero in the next eight years.