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”
