Emission reduction remains public’s preferred approach to climate change
Alan Robock ☮
Emission reduction remains public’s preferred approach to climate change
by Barry G. Rabe and Christopher Borick
"Americans continue to favor reducing greenhouse gas emissions as their preferred approach for staving off the worst impacts of climate change, according to new public opinion findings. The public remains considerably more skeptical of any pivot from mitigation toward climate policy that prioritizes adaptation, use of geoengineering that releases particles into the atmosphere in attempting to deter warming, or subterranean carbon storage. These findings emerge from the Winter 2022 National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE). ..."
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SALTER Stephen
Hi All
Americans are in love with six-shooters to their dying breath. Who made them think we are allowed only one climate solution?
Did they know how many salt particles of a wide range of sizes are already being released into the environment from breaking waves on beaches?
Stephen
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Michael MacCracken
While mitigation is commendable and essential, a major problem with this view is that it is rather unlikely that emissions can be reduced rapidly enough to keep the increase in global average temperature (a very innocuous metric for the situation that will result) below 2 C, or much more realistically, given the challenges ahead, of 3 C. In either case, the result is very likely to be catastrophic consequences with respect to extreme events, sea level rise and biodiversity loss, among many other impacts.
Mike MacCracken
SALTER Stephen
Hi All
Zero change in mean temperature change but wild extremes such at the recent Texas winter and +38 C in Siberia might indeed be undesirable. However if I had to pick groups of people to undergo this . . .
Stephen
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While mitigation is commendable and essential, a major problem with this view is that it is rather unlikely that emissions can be reduced rapidly enough to keep the increase in global average temperature (a very innocuous metric for the situation that will result) below 2 C, or much more realistically, given the challenges ahead, of 3 C. In either case, the result is very likely to be catastrophic consequences with respect to extreme events, sea level rise and biodiversity loss, among many other impacts.
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On May 11, 2022, at 1:17 PM, Phil M <eeia...@gmail.com> wrote:
Apparently they haven't been told that this will not save them...
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