Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds

Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by mhh__ on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:28PM (#24165661)

1) Get the White House (and the rest of the state) under non-climate denying control. The USA has to do better - per capita emissions are something like 4 or 5 times worse than the UK (for example). Any form of moral leadership would be nice from the Republican Party would be nice (The Statistics are depressingly split over party lines https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/11/25/u-s-public-vi...)

2) Carbon Taxes everywhere

3) Eliminate coal power from the developing world, even if it means switching to gas in the short term.

4) CCS - current efforts already seem surprisingly doable (single digit trillions IIRC)

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Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by alacombe on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:35PM (#24165686)

> 2) Carbon Taxes everywhere

Which was locally recently show to be ineffective - https://biv.com/article/2020/08/bc-carbon-tax-ineffective-ce...

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Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by mhh__ on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:47PM (#24165741)

> It would be more effective in curbing emissions if it were higher, she said

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-british-carbon-tax-coal-fired-...

There is at least some evidence of success in the UK (combined with other policy + economic reality). Our climate policy is probably the only thing the government have done well recently - dwarfed by the impending iceberg of Brexit.

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Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by imtringued on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:23AM (#24169510)

Your article specifically says that emissions would have risen faster without the carbon tax.

The article also clearly mentions that the ineffectiveness is caused by the fact that the carbon tax is too low.

Come on if you're going to link an article then don't pick one that is showing a different picture than your comment. All it showed is that governments refuse to implement effective policies, not that the concept of a carbon tax itself is flawed.

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Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by danbolt on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:04AM (#24165823)

I'm reading the article, and one of the researchers (Dinara Millington) suggests increasing the Carbon Taxes to make them more effective.

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Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by ultrablack on Saturday August 15, 2020 @02:01AM (#24166378)

Exactly: researchers promoting policy. This why people are sceptic.

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