Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world
by njarboe on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @12:43PM
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Not a very honest paper title. "Quantified, localized health benefits of accelerated carbon dioxide emissions reductions". I lost a little more respect for Nature today. To call them premature deaths due to CO2 when they are really about other things that are emitted with the CO2 when burning fossil fuels, is deceptive.
From the article abstract:
"This generally reduces co-emissions that cause ambient air pollution, resulting in near-term, localized health benefits. We therefore examine the human health benefits of increasing 21st-century CO2 reductions by 180 GtC, an amount that would shift a ‘standard’ 2 °C scenario to 1.5 °C or could achieve 2 °C without negative emissions."
I did not read the article but the abstract emphasizes the number of lives saved in Asia and Africa. It is probably the reduction in burning coal without any scrubbers that gives the large reduction in deaths. Reducing natural gas power generation in the US would likely reduce few deaths.
Re:Twice as long – life expectancy around the world
by wjossey on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:24PM
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I had written a similar post earlier but decided not to submit as I felt I must have been missing something. You articulated what I was attempting to say very well. Thank you!
From the article abstract:
"This generally reduces co-emissions that cause ambient air pollution, resulting in near-term, localized health benefits. We therefore examine the human health benefits of increasing 21st-century CO2 reductions by 180 GtC, an amount that would shift a ‘standard’ 2 °C scenario to 1.5 °C or could achieve 2 °C without negative emissions."
I did not read the article but the abstract emphasizes the number of lives saved in Asia and Africa. It is probably the reduction in burning coal without any scrubbers that gives the large reduction in deaths. Reducing natural gas power generation in the US would likely reduce few deaths.