Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons of CO2 emissions

Re:Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons... by ben_w on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:07AM (#32750847)

While it is true that our species going extinct from climate change is extremely unlikely (even in the event of climate change leading to global thermonuclear war), and while I am also frustrated by binary thinking where everything is either "fine" or "disaster"[0], we are uncomfortably close to the lower estimate for the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, which would cause a 7.2 meter sea level rise, which is a massive disaster.

[0] or indeed where everything is either "cold" or "hot", as someone recently posted here suggesting that global warming would solve the problem of EV batteries being too cold sometimes

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Re:Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons... by renjimen on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:35AM (#32752031)

Just to add some more detail, we estimate a maximum 2 m sea level rise by 2100 due to contributions from all glacier sources, including the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Ice Sheet, but more likely closer to 0.8 m [1]. That is still a large amount given ~400 million people live below 2 m [2], and most of those in developing parts of the world.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1159099

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/29/risk-fro...

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