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=====Scientists Behind ‘Net Zero’ Concept Say Nations Are Getting It Wrong===== | |||
[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-03/scientists-behind-net-zero-concept-say-nations-are-getting-it-wrong?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczMzMyNzM1MCwiZXhwIjoxNzMzOTMyMTUwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTTlg1R0ZEV1gyUFQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGMkY1NTFERTc4ODA0RkJBOTk5NEFBMTQ5RTM1NjQ3RCJ9.dXQ3ra_cY9W4vaE6qfvIbGvc-6uyb0rMWVymAXbWwgU by Eric Roston 12/03/2024 Bloomberg] | |||
There are consequences of this accounting mismatch. The first is, it increases the urgency to stop burning fossil fuels, the authors write, or to capture and bury pollution with emerging methods. The climate that humanity grew up in relied on millions of years of coal, oil and gas sitting underground. The main solution therefore is to leave it there, capture the carbon from smokestacks and permanently bury it, or clean it out of the open air. | |||
Returning carbon underground is “geological net zero,” and it’s what the authors originally had in mind in 2009. No countries are currently pursuing it. | |||
Countries should be able deduct CO2 that’s drawn down permanently, back into the Earth, from their gross fossil-fuel emissions. But carbon absorbed by land and oceans doesn’t count as “geological net zero,” and should not be credited against emissions. | |||
===== Defense arguments are set to open in a landmark climate case brought by Montana youth ===== | ===== Defense arguments are set to open in a landmark climate case brought by Montana youth ===== | ||
[https://www.npr.org/2023/06/19/1182999615/defense-arguments-to-begin-in-youth-climate-trial-in-montana by Ellis Juhlin 19/6/23 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2023/06/19/1182999615/defense-arguments-to-begin-in-youth-climate-trial-in-montana by Ellis Juhlin 19/6/23 npr] | ||
