Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis

Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by zaroth on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:42PM (#21119490)

Luckily there are innumerable innovations happening every year to provide environmentally cleaner products, whether it's LED lighting, emissions technology, battery chemistry, clothing dyes, irrigation techniques, crop resiliency, or even a more effective cold water formulations of laundry detergent... when cleaner is correlated with better, it wins in the general market all by itself.

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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by arbol on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:18AM (#21123164)

The ice caps are likely to have gone in ten years.

https://static.skepticalscience.com/graphics/sea_ice_predict...

These reflect heat from the surface of the earth. Without them we could be looking at rapid deterioration of living conditions due to feedback loops.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice–albedo_feedback

Innovations will not save us at this point. The global food supply chain falters and civilisation collapses.

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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by ClumsyPilot on Monday September 30, 2019 @08:47PM (#21121004)

we don't have time to wait for future innovations, because they take decades to deploy. Look at cars - even if every single car produced from tomorrow onwards was electric, it would take 20 years to replace cars already on the road. And most cars being produced are not electric. And electric cars are more expensive, today, than their ICE cousins, so a random poor bloke in Russia is not going to be buying one.

Not consider that electrification of trucks, ships and planes is basically at 0%. Replacing powerplants and other large caliber infrastructure takes even longer.

So we don't have the luxury of sitting around and wait for the market to sort itself out.

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