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.
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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"