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"Tech companies think they can reverse climate change with fancy new tools to
take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But new research throws cold water
on the idea that cooling the planet after it has already heated beyond a key
turning point can avoid serious damage. Much of the toll climate change takes —
from rising seas to lost homes — can’t be undone, recent research published in
the journal
Nature warns.
That makes it all the more urgent for governments and companies with climate
goals to slash pollution from fossil fuels now, rather than offsetting or
capturing their greenhouse gas emissions after the fact.
“Climate change comes with irreversible consequences. Every degree of warming,
or every point of a degree of warming ... comes with irreversible
consequences,” Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, lead author of the paper and head of
the integrated climate impacts research group at the International Institute
for Applied Systems Analysis, said in a call with reporters before the paper
was published.
Startups are developing a whole suite of technologies to try to help big
polluters capture their carbon dioxide emissions — from filtering CO₂ out of
the air or ocean to trapping CO₂ in rocks or concrete. These technologies still
have to prove whether they’ll be able to scale up to a level that would make a
meaningful impact on climate change."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
