Arctic Summer Melt Shows Ice Is Disappearing Faster Than Normal

Re:Arctic Summer Melt Shows Ice Is Disappearing Faster Than ... by ForHackernews on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:59PM (#20480399)

I was mostly being facetious. We probably don't have enough time left to build fission power plants (and certainly not fusion) before the level of CO2 in the atmosphere will lead inevitably to catastrophic consequences.

According to the IPCC, we have to cut global CO2 emissions by 50% before 2030. So your vast fleet of nuclear power plants might just barely be coming online by then. Maybe. If you started getting regulatory approval yesterday and nothing goes wrong at all.

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Re:Arctic Summer Melt Shows Ice Is Disappearing Faster Than ... by Aloha on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:10PM (#20481073)

The answer is some sort of sequestration tbh, I've long felt that the idea (even in say, 2005) that we could reduce our carbon output by 50% was unworkable - the only thing that is easy to move to zero carbon is electricity generation, everything else is an order of magnitude harder.

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