Do our politicians act like they are properly aware that their actions today are changing climate on Earth for thousands of years to come?
Do they have sleepless nights and intensive exchange with experts over this huge responsibility?
Or wrote a thesis title 'The Attraction of Sloppy Nonsense' (why people believe in BS).
That cold blob is not getting any smaller.
Comment: NZ's first Paris target was set by National's John Key, who always expected to send billions offshore to meet it.
Similarly, durable replacement don't emerge whole cloth out of the ether; near-term investments in durable CDR are needed alongside reversible CDR to help scale the technology and drive down costs.
Thanks Kate Newton /John Campbell of @rnzrss.bsky.social for a really clear explainer of NZ owing 5 billion (or a year’s worth of emissions) to meet what we pledged when we signed Paris.
At same time current govt still plans to pay 1 billion on an LNG terminal research indicates is unnecessary?!
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
We have a new paper out on the value of reversible carbon storage in a zero-emissions world, led by Allegra Mayer and with Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Jerome Dumortier, and Eric Slessarev! We try and answer the question of when it makes sense to "rent" vs "buy" CDR: pubs.acs.org/doi/10....
