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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick: The need for really big carbon sinks
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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick. By WILLIAM H. CALVIN, University of Washington. Fixing climate means far more than reducing emissions by midcentury. Until CO2 concentrations themselves are lowered, things will continue getting worse. Our climate fix needs to be quick. And because that means cancelling out existing fossil fuel emissions with new carbon sinks, the fix has to be big. Laquo; The Unthinkable Happens. The politics of Resentment ». Saturday, 13 December 2008. Posted at 05:00 PM. This is ...
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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick: The politics of Resentment
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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick. By WILLIAM H. CALVIN, University of Washington. Fixing climate means far more than reducing emissions by midcentury. Until CO2 concentrations themselves are lowered, things will continue getting worse. Our climate fix needs to be quick. And because that means cancelling out existing fossil fuel emissions with new carbon sinks, the fix has to be big. Laquo; The need for really big carbon sinks. Friday, 02 January 2009. The politics of Resentment. Racism Politics just...
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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick: carbon fee
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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick. By WILLIAM H. CALVIN, University of Washington. Fixing climate means far more than reducing emissions by midcentury. Until CO2 concentrations themselves are lowered, things will continue getting worse. Our climate fix needs to be quick. And because that means cancelling out existing fossil fuel emissions with new carbon sinks, the fix has to be big. Thursday, 20 September 2007. Get-rich-quick Memo to the Oil Barons. Works anywhere on earth, though some places will&#...
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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick: nuclear power
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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick. By WILLIAM H. CALVIN, University of Washington. Fixing climate means far more than reducing emissions by midcentury. Until CO2 concentrations themselves are lowered, things will continue getting worse. Our climate fix needs to be quick. And because that means cancelling out existing fossil fuel emissions with new carbon sinks, the fix has to be big. Wednesday, 19 September 2007. The future ain ’t what it used to be. Insurance companies will simply stop insuring some...
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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick: insurance
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Our Climate Fix Must Be Big and Quick. By WILLIAM H. CALVIN, University of Washington. Fixing climate means far more than reducing emissions by midcentury. Until CO2 concentrations themselves are lowered, things will continue getting worse. Our climate fix needs to be quick. And because that means cancelling out existing fossil fuel emissions with new carbon sinks, the fix has to be big. Wednesday, 19 September 2007. The future ain ’t what it used to be. Insurance companies will simply stop insuring some...
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Calvin on Climate: Climate: Is This the Best We Can Do?
http://calvinclimate.blogspot.com/2014/09/climate-is-this-best-we-can-do.html
Critical essays on the more urgent aspects of climate change, by William H. Calvin, author of Global Fever (University of Chicago Press). Climate: Is This the Best We Can Do? Suppose that you went to the dentist with a toothache. But instead of filling the cavity, the dentist merely told you to brush your teeth more often. But we’re doing something about it, right? Yet reducing emissions from tailpipes and smokestacks does not reduce the carbon dioxide accumulation, not any more than a drop in the intere...
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Calvin on Climate: Plowing Under a Carbon-fixing Crop
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Critical essays on the more urgent aspects of climate change, by William H. Calvin, author of Global Fever (University of Chicago Press). Plowing Under a Carbon-fixing Crop. The common criticism of ocean fertilization by upwelling nutrients from the depths is that it also brings up CO2 from the depths. If one does not explore the issue more fully, it makes one think that upwelling nutrients is counterproductive. Instead of sinking only the debris that is heavy enough to settle out, as in iron fertilizati...
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Calvin on Climate: This New Era of Climate Instability
http://calvinclimate.blogspot.com/2014/09/this-new-era-of-climate-instability.html
Critical essays on the more urgent aspects of climate change, by William H. Calvin, author of Global Fever (University of Chicago Press). This New Era of Climate Instability. In our race to overheat the planet, hot spots have developed. Unless you reside on a yacht, you probably live atop one. A fireplace is merely a mini hot spot. As warm air rises, cooler air comes rushing in to replace it (the “draw”). With hotter spots, you get a stronger breeze. This generality tells us quite a lot about what’...
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Calvin on Climate: Our Understated Climate Problem
http://calvinclimate.blogspot.com/2014/10/our-understated-climate-problem.html
Critical essays on the more urgent aspects of climate change, by William H. Calvin, author of Global Fever (University of Chicago Press). Our Understated Climate Problem. For climate disease, there is no doubt remaining about the diagnosis: global overheating, mostly from an insulating blanket of the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels. That’s what stirs up such knock-on effects as extreme weather and expanding subtropical deserts. But what’s left out of most simulations are the equally...
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Calvin on Climate: Why Climate is Already an Emergency
http://calvinclimate.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-climate-is-already-emergency.html
Critical essays on the more urgent aspects of climate change, by William H. Calvin, author of Global Fever (University of Chicago Press). Why Climate is Already an Emergency. As World War Two was starting in Europe, the American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the metaphor of a “four-alarm fire up the street” that needed to be extinguished immediately, whatever the cost. The situation in 1940 was not merely a crisis, what with Europe engulfed and Britain under attack. It was an emergency. The in...
