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emissions

Cutting soot could buy the world time on slashing emissions

Tackling soot is a short-term measure that could help us out in the long run

“Relative to the risks of coal mining and oil exploration, the downsides of offshore wind turbines seem minor.”

—USA Today editorial on approval of the Cape Wind offshore wind farm

“The right target for mugging little old ladies and for carbon dioxide emissions is zero.”

—climate scientist Ken Caldeira

Testing geoengineering: a catch 22

We can’t test it without agreement, but who will agree to testing it?

Averting ice ages is easy

A report in Technology Review raised the specter of an approaching ice age, but the real problem is avoiding a super-greenhouse world

Hertsgaard: “The Copenhagen disaccord”

The big climate talks were a flop, to we need unfettered, open-minded discussion of what to do next

“I believe that we should be outlawing the production of devices that emit carbon dioxide.”

—climate scientist Ken Caldeira

Putting the brakes on China’s CO2 freight train

China’s carbon emissions pledge uses a trick the Bush administration was fond of—and confuses some journalists along the way

“The only near certain conclusion we can draw is that there is little time left in which to act.”

—James Lovelock, chemist and originator of Gaia theory

“It is almost unthinkable that [CO2] will not get to 500 parts per million”

—geologist Dan Schrag on “the most important number in the world”

bookshelf

books I've read on failure & grace

The World Without Us
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
Zeitoun
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Tipping Point
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World


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