[GPSCC-chat] The full global warming solution: How the world can stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm « Climate Progress

[Wes Rolley]

http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/10/the-full-global-warming-solution-how-the-world-can-stabilize-at-350-to-450-ppm/

This is much too long for a cut and paste.  However, it does outline 
just how much we have to do in order to sae the world.  Rather gloomy 
unless you have a pollyanna streak.

> Stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide at 450 ppm or 
> lower is not politically possible today --- not even close --- but is 
> certainly achievable from an economic and technological perspective, 
> as I and others have said for years 
> <http://climateprogress.org/2008/03/31/is-450-ppm-carbon-dioxide-politically-possible-1/>. 
>
>
> Humanity has only two paths forward at this point.  Either we 
> voluntarily switch to a low-carbon, low-oil, low-net water use, 
> low-net-material use economy over the next two decades or the 
> post-Ponzi-scheme-collapse 
> <http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/08/ponzi-scheme-madoff-friedman-natural-capital-renewable-resources/>forces 
> us to do so circa 2030. The only difference between the two paths is 
> that the first one spares our children and grandchildren and countless 
> future generations untold misery (see "Intro to global warming 
> impacts: Hell and High Water 
> <http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/22/an-introduction-to-global-warming-impacts-hell-and-high-water/>" 
> and "A stunning year in climate science reveals that human 
> civilization is on the precipice 
> <http://climateprogress.org/2010/11/15/year-in-climate-science-climategate/>").
>

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