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Meanwhile, some "quick carbon removal demand math" from Nan Ransohoff on whether the world could -- and would -- scale carbon removal to sufficient levels this century.
~1% does it
https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/quick-carbon-removal-demand-math
Carbon removal demand continues to be a much-discussed topic within…
https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/quick-carbon-removal-demand-math"Carbon dioxide removal will achieve too little, too late"
Interesting how the print version drops the "Don't overshoot" (for space reasons, no doubt), turning it into an even stronger statement.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03266-9
Doesn't mean we shouldn't invest in carbon removal, and fast. See e.g. https://gwagner.com/stripe But banking on it because of all those yummy profits to be had from extracting fossil fuels now and using the atmosphere as a free dumpster is courting disaster.
Many climate scenarios bake in a temperature overshoot before technologies…
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03266-9'burbanites in their oversized podcast players, until one of them runs out of podcasts
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Jannuary 2024 (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
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188 pages, paperback
11,5 x 19 cm
ISBN 978-3-7011-0528-1
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Ein Liebesbrief an die Stadt, einer ans Land, und einer ans Klima
Warum wir nur mit einem urbanen Leben die Erde retten
Brandstätter Verlag
8. Februar 2021
ISBN 978-3-7106-0508-6
Format 13,5 x 21 cm
Hardcover, 192 Seiten
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