SwedishAdvocate
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but how can you possibly get to 350 ppm?
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On the other hand, we have plenty of inexpensive ways to reduce the rate at which we're pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.
All it would take is an act of Congress to make a difference (e.g., carbon tax). Sadly, there's no realistic way to even do that. :-(
I’m sure some smart people have thought about what needs to be done, and that this info is available somewhere.
But yes, it seems there needs to be a price on Green House Gases. As soon as we have this price, we can then set it accordingly, so that we can at least stabilize the CO2-level.
So in the US that means getting people to understand that the USA are going to need a carbon tax (so there can be not only a President, but also a congress that understands).
And we might need some economic incentive to see to it that we get all the natural ecosystem CO2-sinks we can find, because we have really been needing them for quite some time. This for example seems to mean reduced deforestation and improved soil conservation.
The most basic place to start? According to this, getting off coal and improving land use seems to be able to get us a long way:
http://www.350.org/sites/all/files/solutions-factsheet.pdf
Also: One historical event that might be useful when beginning to wrap ones head around what a serious effort to engage global warming could mean, may be that the US ceased all domestic passenger automobile production in February 1942.
And retooling to build cars again didn’t start until three years and seven months later when WWII had ended.
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