Hi Jason,
That second part, "And if we stay at true net zero, we’ll see half of the human-caused CO₂ coming out of the atmosphere in as little as 30 years.”
seems unsubstantiated for cumulative CO₂. I think he's referring to year to year change of somewhere in the neighborhood of 36 GtCO₂, which would be somewhere about 10GtCO₂. Most net-zero modeling with CDR has about 10ish GtCO₂. The sources for these would be at the IPCC IIASA db: https://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/iamc-1.5c-explorer, and look for the scenarios with CDR.
Cheers,
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Indeed, yes, if we don't do any scaled CDR and SRM, or other
albedo modification after reaching the soonest net-zero and
running till century's end.
To take care of all of cumulative CO₂, we'd need CDR somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 GtCO₂ per year from now till about mid century then drop the CDR rate down to about 25 GtCO₂ till 2100. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5K37C (Front loading removal post net-zero brings CO₂ concentration and temperature down the fastest to mid-century to avert further climate damages, then mid-century to 2100, the slower path to 0ºC avoids a temperature rebound seen in the nonlinear removal pathways.)
We need massive CDR (~40 Gt/year or more) to get back to a safe climate in 30~60 years.
This is assuming we want a better climate than 1.5ºC and to reach nearly 0ºC over 1720-1800 mean. That lower target isn't what consensus science is looking into. Although I can't read that article, I'm quite sure consensus sci isn't looking into this since there are no other works besides my own to reach 0ºC in Zoomer's lifetimes.
The other closest work for 1ºC by 2100 that was recently
published: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000234,
Prof C. Breyer and their team found rough yearly rates
for about 40GtCO₂ from mid 2060s to 2100, post a swift path to
net-zero (accomplished via scaled renewables and massive emissions
reductions).
Best,
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An analysis of the data for the 400+ scenarios in the “IPCC 1.5°C Report” shows a very strong correlation between atmospheric CO2 PPM and cumulative net CO2 emissions from 2020 to 2100:
With atmospheric CO2 at currently at about 420 PPM, “half of the human-caused CO₂ coming out of the atmosphere” requires atmospheric CO2 to be reduced to 350 PPM (=420 – (420 – 280)/2). Based on the “trend line” in the above (or attached) graph, cumulative CO2 emissions from 2020 to 2100 would need to be about -300 GTCO2 to get to 350PPM in 2100. Since emissions 2020-2023 will be about 200 GTCO2, about 500 GTCO2 + all future net CO2 emissions will need to be removed from the atmosphere to reach 350 PPM in 2100.
Cum Net CO2 (GTCO2) | -300 | -200 | -100 | 0 | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | 1000 | 1100 | 1200 |
CO2 PPM | 351 | 360 | 368 | 377 | 386 | 395 | 403 | 412 | 421 | 430 | 438 | 447 | 456 | 465 | 473 | 482 |
Bruce Parker
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Apologies for re-opening this thread. I have been asked to draft a response to Gore and this thread has proved extremely useful. However, I wonder if there's something we've missed. Just to be clear, what Gore is quoted as saying is:
if we stay at true net zero, we’ll see half of the human-caused CO2 coming out of the atmosphere in as little as 30 years.
'If we stay at net zero' implies that we've already reached net zero. He doesn't make any reference to the trajectory towards net zero but the most demanding case is the notional sudden cessation contemplated in the Zero Emissions Commitment discussed at length in AR6 - see Fig. 4.39. This is taken from MacDougall et al 2020 Is there warming in the pipeline. The graph indicates that 30 years after cessation, atmospheric CO2 has dropped by 60ppm. It is currently at 423ppm, 145ppm above its pre-industrial level usually taken to be 278ppm. That is a reduction of 41%, a little short of 'half' but not so much short that it would be sensible to make a big deal about it.
There
is an argument that MacDougall et al's work is methodologically
unsound but that is highly technical and not one to hit Gore
with. It's perfectly reasonable for him to regard the IPCC as a
credible authority on something like this. Our concerns about
the IPCC need to be pursued elsewhere.
It
doesn't make sense to interpret his comment literally because
total human emissions (including from land use change) are of
the order of 2,400GtCO2, half of which is 1,200GtCO2 and that
corresponds to 155ppm. That would take us back to below
pre-industrial and that is clearly not what he intends.
I conclude that as a political statement, if not a scientific one, the utterance above is sufficiently true that it is not worth taking issue with it.
That said, his statement is objectionable for other reasons, in brief because we'll run out of road long before we get to net zero.
Does anyone have any objection to my reading of this?
Robert
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Hi Chris,
The one tool still in our pocket is tipping collapses and further warming. I may have a path to get to Al through the new Sierra Club director Ben Jealous. This net zero science is wrong, but we can't tell Al that because who are we to say? Others say something better, that Al likes more, that fits Al's decades-old narrative, that Al is going to repeat.
What he cannot argue against however is tipping collapse science
and the point of no return. Classic systems collapse science says
we can avoid tipping if we remove the perturbation to the system
that caused the collapse to activate before the point of no return
(Hansen 2008 and 2017, Lenton 2109, McKay 2022, Rockstrom 2023.)
Al can't argue against the reality that the delay has been too
long, and that Earth systems are in collapse. He needs to
understand the difference between tipping as used in climate
science findings, and tipping responses, that includes activation
and the irreversible point of no return. It is the point of no
return that academic findings cite. The lead up to the point of no
return is Earth systems collapse activation, as per Lenton 2019;
tipping activation.
The challenge for Gore and almost everybody else, is that delay
has caused what climate scientists have been warning about for
decades: tipping is now active and the solutions are now quite
different from before. Tipping does not stabilize unless we
restore our climate. Further warming to 1.5 C means irreversible
tipping is locked in, with feedback emissions that far exceed
humankind's. Future emissions eliminations, because of delay and
tipping now being active, do not change our future path. Existing
warming has caused tipping to activate and it completes with no
further warming. As Hansen 2008 states, some overshoot is
acceptable, as long as we return to within the temperature range
of the Holocene, or within the natural variation of our old
climate where our Earth systems evolved, before the point of no
return.
The path to Al: Ben Jealous, Sierra Club's new Executive Director, met with Al recently. The Club has not yet fully embraced our new 1 C target. I am hoping Ben can drive this forward, but I have not seen any encouragement yet. I have a call in to the Lonestar Sierra Club Chapter ExCom member who reported on this meeting between Ben and Al (I am on Lonestar ExCom too and heard about this meeting at our last board meeting this past Sunday) to see if there is a path to not only facilitate the Club in fully embracing our new policy we adopted three years ago, but a path to get to Al too.
It's going to be September before I can move on this as me and
the boss are about to launch on filming walkabout to finish the
sequoia burn film. I would like to keep abreast of what you are
doing with Al, and maybe we can collaborate, or at least trade
notes. For example - who charged you with writing about the NYT
article?
Instagram filming logs daily - Inst...@Bruce.C.Melton
Extreme heat in Austin. It is 97 at 11:41 am at my favorite
station on Barton Creek at SH71 on the SW side of town. Normal
20th Century 100-degree days per year is 10 to 11 per year. The
current 5-year average is 47. It hasn't rained more than a few
hundredths since the first week of June. Nowhere near normal.
-Melton
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Hi Robert
The Zero Emission Commitment argument that Gore relies on is “the potential additional warming after a complete cessation of net CO2 emissions,… is taken to be zero ±0.19°C” (AR6 WG1 5.5.2.2.4). This is contradicted by Randers & Goluke (Nature 2020) who present an earth system model showing self‑sustained rising temperature even if anthropogenic emissions stop now. Their model shows global temperature rising for many centuries, irrespective of how fast humanity cuts emissions. They cite three factors: self-sustained thawing of the permafrost caused by methane release, lower surface albedo caused by melting ice and snow, and higher humidity caused by higher temperatures, with this threshold triggered at warming of 0.5 °C above pre-industrial.
Regards
Robert Tulip
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On Aug 19, 2023, at 11:47 AM, Jason Grillo <jason...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, Jack Sullivan in AirMiners posted this source from Al Gore's TED Talk video here:
Thanks all!
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Copying offline discussion on ZEC figures to CDR list. Mike MacCracken said he had not sent to the list as he is not a member.
Mike says in email below that Drew Shindell’s statement applies to model results for (a) a large pulse injection of say 1000 GtC and/or (b) a simulation that has emissions rise per a growth scenario and then go instantly to zero emissions when 1000 GtC emissions are reached.
These are not realistic scenarios so have no bearing on an actual effect of achieving net zero emissions in the alleged Zero Emission Commitment.
Robert Tulip
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Subject: Re: [CDR] Q: Scientific backing of Al Gore quote in July 18 NYT article?
Right--as I understand it, they mix results from two different types of simulations.
1. The pulse injection or sudden zero stop results--yes temperature stabilizes. I've tried to explain the confusion about saying additional 50% cut.
2. Real scenario runs and Mike Mann saying warming stops pretty quickly, which I guess would not be the case if only GHG were CO2, but if other species concentrations drop, this balances, they say, the lack of ocean reaching equilibrium, etc.
Mike
On 8/19/23 10:11 PM, Shannon A. Fiume wrote:
Hi Mike,
Ok, I misread what you originally wrote, sorry about that.
The only 1000 Pg pulse injection studies I know about are the ZEC paper. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-2987-2020
Despite model variation, and reductions and likely reestablishing equilibrium in CO₂ concentration (https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/17/2987/2020/bg-17-2987-2020-f07-high-res.pdf), temperature plateaus for the 1000 GtC:
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/17/2987/2020/bg-17-2987-2020-f05-high-res.pdf
Do they know it isn't the smoking gun they think it is? I'm not sure how comparable 1000 Pg pulse injection is compatible to our situation if those models don't have all the math to accurately model real life melting.
Wild, yeah he also had more recent announcements in '21 on both methane and particulate matter.
Thanks again Mike,
~~sa
On 8/19/23 6:18 PM, Michael MacCracken wrote:
Hi Shannon--I had an email exchange with Drew about it. I don't think that it was Drew that did the modeling studies. Al Gore has for a long time dropped in to visit scientists and get their views and I imagine it came up when AG was visiting Drew talking about short-lived species and their lifetimes, etc., which Drew had an article in Science about regarding the conclusions of a panel he chaired that prepared a report for UNEP (copies attached), namely that sharp reductions in emissions of short-lived species could cut warming by half a degree by 2050. This would have also been the time of the model experiments and I'd imagine he sent AG a memo on this, not something necessarily public at the time.
Best, Mike
On 8/19/23 8:44 PM, Shannon A. Fiume wrote:
Thanks Mike,
Yes, I realized Al Gore said the quote both in the Ted talk and the NY times article, what I was saying is I can't find the original reference from Prof Shindell making any claim during that time for CO₂. I think that Gore's team misquoted Prof Shindell, unless someone can find the quote. I did find Prof Shindell making similar statements about methane given it's short half-life, but not CO₂.
Right, you're rehashing what we already pointed out, between Bruce's null findings and others.
It has to be a misquote, unless someone can reach Prof Shindell and he provides the reference.
Regards,
~~sa
On 8/19/23 5:20 PM, Michael MacCracken wrote:
Hi Shannon--He said it, at least, in a speech in Davos a year or two ago, in the NY Times (article attached) and in his talk to those on a Climate Reality phone call perhaps 2-3 weeks ago.
Due to query from Jason, Al Gore's expert scientist at a couple of his leadership training sessions, I've done a bit of looking into it. You perhaps did not get my response as I don't think I'm in the Carbon Removal Group and so did not copy them on the response to Jason. I've copied it below:
HI jason--Sorry not to get back to you after your initial iquiry. After checking with Drew, etc., this statement applies to model results for (a) a large pulse injection of say 1000 GtC (so one of the limits IPCC talks about, and/or (b) a simulation that has emissions rise per a growth scenario and then go instantly to zero emissions when 1000 GtC emissions are reached. And all these results are saying is that the airborne fraction is about one-half. Well, interesting and true, but this is what everyone has been sort of assuming (or calculating) for all the various emissions scenarios.
What the quote mistakenly makes it sound to those in the field is that the airborne fraction will drop from one-half that all are already using to one-quarter when world reaches net-zero--and this is just not the case. To get to an airborne fraction of one quarter, the excess CO2 would have to at least mix through the deep ocean (a thousand years or more) and into the long lived soil carbon (again, over a thousand years) and even this might not do it.
So, this is a big misunderstanding and I've sent messages to Gore's staffer on this--not yet a good response. It is unfortunate but I understand good runs have not been made of realistic cases where one has emissions drop to near zero and then a long tail to net zero nor really well with realistic drops in emissions of short-lived species. And because some short-lived gases have significant forcings, it could be that their forcing drops more than the small CO2 addition increases the forcing, so not really clear when warming will stop compared to getting to net-zero. It basically will all determine on the timing of emissions reductions in each species, some actions limiting peak warming that is reached and some affecting when warming starts to reverse.
Mike
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Hi Jason & all,
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