CSIRO slams carbon reduction strategies
Posted by Pat Kershaw on November 29, 2006
I don’t supose they have ever pulled thier punches, but this article helps to compile “the state of the game’ as far as the green house gas emissions is concerned. It highlights why this stupid carbon credits idea will never work.
- China won’t join
- How to police/register/monitor automobiles, stoves, furnaces… every driver has credits/debits?
- Who pays (say a nation like Canada, or a person like me when we successfully reduce emissions.)
- Or if you draw a line under say power-stations, where do you draw the line, and how do you compensate those above the line?
Heres a quote, I encourage you to read the article, and post any others in the comments. I will highlight them down the track.
Monday, 27 November 2006 Cosmos Online SYDNEY: The rate of increase in carbon dioxide emissions has more than doubled since the 1990s, according to a new Australian study, raising fears that the rising levels of carbon dioxide may be unstoppable.
Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station in Tasmania. Air samples collected here indicate that carbon emissions have more than doubled since the 1990s
According to Raupach 7.9 billion tonnes of carbon were emitted into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide in 2005 and the rate of increase is accelerating.
Currently, China demonstrates the highest current growth rate in emissions,…
The study examined a 30-year record of air samples …
“On our current path, it will be difficult to rein-in carbon emissions enough to stabilise the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration at 450 ppm (the IPCC’s goal for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels).”
According to CSIRO’s Paul Fraser, another of the study’s authors, “The trend over recent years suggests the growth rate is accelerating, signifying that fossil fuels are having an impact on greenhouse gas concentrations in a way we haven’t seen in the past.”
“The jump in emissions is remarkable … it seems there has been a tremendous shift in the past five years,” said independent expert Paul Crutzen of the Max Plank Institute for Chemistry in Germany, a Nobel Prize winner for his work on holes in the ozone layer. “Unfortunately, once emissions go up, it’s very hard to bring them back down.”
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